used as a meaningful basis for targeting and poverty measurement. … aim to reflect local perceptions of poverty. This paper demonstrates how such a measure can be constructed, using data … from a field experiment on poverty targeting in Indonesia. It then explores the potential impact of using this welfare …

new dataset of consistent inequality series,allowing us to explore problems of measurement error. In addition, the new … estimate the entire income distribution; computing alternativeinequality indexes and poverty estimates. Finally, we have used … our broad1y comparabledataset to examine international patterns of inequality and poverty. …

technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain households are poverty trapped, that the initial distribution of wealth … fully determines aggregate production and that wealth redistribution is equity and efficiency enhancing.Empirical evidence … redistribution. …

expanded in a consistent way to any welfare measure;and can be assessed for reliability usingstandard statistical theory …

measurement scale, by providing formal proofs of several issues in the debate, and by lifting the curtain on the confusing debate …

's genetics. I investigate whether individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in … study highlights that individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in …