This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual herd immunity scenario: without any policy intervention, LYs … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional …

explicitly addresses issues pertaining to the potential endogeneity and measurement error of initial income and poverty. We find …This paper explores the dynamics of income and poverty of rural Indian households, 1994-2005. The estimation strategy … analysis to test whether poor households are more likely to exit poverty than to remain poor. The identification strategy …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … poverty. -- income mobility ; poverty ; pseudo-panels ; Latin America …

Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …

inequality relate to changes in consumption and poverty. In addition, we examine whether there has been convergence in inequality … and median consumption expenditure increased. At the same time, poverty incidence and severity increased precipitously … regions in consumption or poverty levels. We also find that durable goods expenditures are the biggest contributor to …

the labor market in a recession on mortality by cause and various measures of socioeconomic status. We find that cohorts … coming of age during the deep recession of the early 1980s suffer increases in mortality that appear in their late 30s and … further strengthen through age 50. We show these mortality impacts are driven by disease-related causes such as heart disease …

Trends in aggregate growth and poverty reduction hide a multiplicity of development processes at the local level. The … analysis reported in this paper exploits a unique panel dataset of poverty maps covering almost 2,400 municipalities in Mexico … decomposition of the poverty convergence elasticity, the analysis investigates whether this convergence, if it exists, has …

and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life … welfare losses - combining mortality and poverty and expressed in terms of life-years - depends both on the choice of poverty … line(s) and on the relative weights placed on mortality and poverty. With a constant absolute poverty line and a relatively …