A link between lack of employment and poverty is often made implicitly, but can rarely be enumerated in any sort of … household’s probability of exiting poverty? Register data from the entire resident population of Norway serves as the basis for … transfers have on the probability of exiting poverty,with or without a concurrent change in employment status. Norway with its …

We estimate the impact of poverty on crime in 19th century Bavaria, Germany. Rainfall is used as an instrumental … determinant of the cost of living and poverty during this period. The rye price has a positive and statistically significant …, a result similar to recent findings from the contemporary U.S. This result is robust to another poverty measure (the …

scheinbare Unvereinbarkeit von Ökologie und Wirtschaftswachstum. Wie die Vorauflage (ID-B 26/12) belebt auch dieser Band mit …

Estimates of poverty are highly sensitive to price and income measures across time and space. This paper offers a … complementary approach to traditional poverty measurement that ensures comparability: we use nighttime light as a proxy for poverty … living in these areas.Between 1992 and 2005, both measures reveal a steady decrease in poverty in China. From 2005 to 2010 …