revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …

Government policies on disability – and criticism of them – rest in parton an understanding of the circumstances of …-disabled”. While conceptual debates about thenature of disability and associated measurement problems have receivedsome attention, the … dynamic aspect of disability has been largelyoverlooked. This paper uses two approaches to longitudinal data fromthe British …

in 1998, by settingthem in the context of the development of disability benefits since theearly 1970s. The first section … charts the creation, extension andsubsequent series of reforms of disability benefits, and shows that while …‘compensatory’ benefits like Industrial Injuries benefit have played asteady role, ‘extra costs’ benefits like Disability Living Allowance …

Equivalisation of incomes for household size and composition is acceptedpractice when measuring poverty and inequality … possible source of additional needs: disability. Using twoUK household surveys, we seek to establish whether there are extra … costs ofliving associated with disability, and to quantify them using the ‘standard ofliving’ approach. The underlying …

explore a plausible route of causationbetween nutrition and poverty, the most urgent task is to disregard the …