This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on … aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net … household income are derived. The BHPS net household income definition is modelled on that used in Britain’s official personal …

Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts … outside Turkey to use household survey data from two nationally representative surveys conducted in 1987 and 1994 to get a … picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994 data remain until today the latest household level data available for …

This paper provides new evidence about poverty trends in Turkey between 2003 and 2011 and the factors accounting for … them. We give particular attention to issues of statistical inference, and the choice of the poverty line and the poverty … measure. Our robust conclusion is that absolute poverty declined rapidly between 2003 and 2008 but fell only slightly between …

, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and poverty rates by almost one-third. However, adjusting for differences in needs for public services across population … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease. …

is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …

comparative effects of cash transfers on inequality and poverty, using consistent household data. The analysis shows that the …

, stable, and non-means-tested benefit. Its main aims are to mitigate poverty and subsequently promote self …

-age male workers. As such, increases in the minimum wage are associated with increases in household consumption per capita in …

We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 … four three-year periods. We find that poverty reduced more in regions that were more strongly exposed to import tariff … increasing firm competitiveness as a driving factor behind the beneficial poverty effects. …

find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of … poor material conditions such as subjective poverty or low relative value of wealth significantly increase the probability … analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …