, and in particular to sea-level rise and its associated risks. We construct poverty and hardship profiles for households on …

Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices … consumption survey data. We propose an alternative approach that identifies poverty from consumer behaviour, based on the notion … higher levels of poverty in eastern India, and generally, smaller reductions in poverty from 2005 to 2010. Our poverty …

pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also show that the household formation responses draw some unemployed … to getaccess to resources without support from unemployment compensation. Analysing a household survey from 1995, we find … that the household formation response of the unemployed is the critical way in which they assure access to resources. In …

against women. We find that husband's education lowers the probability of suffering physical, emotional and economic violence … behaviours such as drinking, gambling, and drug abuse. We also find that women whose mothers or whose husbands' mothers …

(2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers ́labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of … have minimized poverty among lone mothers. …

In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … the first time, to our best understanding, into the factors that shape the decision of a poor household to care about and …

tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative …