Rising poverty and inequality increases the risk of social instability in countries all around the world. For measuring … poverty and inequality there exists a variety of statistical indicators. Estimating these indicators is trivial as long as the … income variable. Based on these pseudo samples, poverty and inequality indicators are estimated. The standard errors of the …

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents ́and childrenś economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of …

observed and are associated with income inequality, poverty, economic growth, public educational expenditures and assortative …The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among …

poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper we address this shortcoming by developing a new …

Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … reduces overall inequality by almost 7 Gini points. This reduction is mainly driven by in-kind benefits while the impact of …

than during the 1980's as a whole, at the same time than inflation was substantially reduced and poverty indicators … poverty faster then during the last years. …

on regional economic indicators, such as income per capita, poverty, child mortality, and luminosity. Our findings show …

increasingly important in-kind benefit in Germany. We find that both multidimensional inequality and poverty declined as expanded …: material standard of living, parental education, and parental childcare time. We compute multidimensional inequality and … poverty indices using SOEP data from 1991-2012. We distinguish between parental and publicly provided childcare, which is an …

macroeconomic performance is closely related to poverty and inequality, very few quantitative estimates are available in Brazil and … series to access the relation between this weak and unstable macroeconomic performance on poverty and inequality. The … estimates indicate relatively weak relation between this variable and poverty or inequality. Finally, time-varying regressions …