We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the … world. The current benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates of monthly real consumption and income for every …

-government income by treating households’ health care costs similarly across countries. The results show the degree of bias in common …As health care costs rise, so too does the importance of assessing their incidence, and factoring these costs into … measures of post-government income distribution. This paper contributes to this assessment by calculating the effect of …

structure intersect in the context of poverty. Method: We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study, the American Community … poverty among individuals within the same family structure. Background: Family structure is a dominant explanation for racial … inequality in poverty. This overemphasis on an “individual-level” variable results in relatively less attention to the role of …

The author addresses two issues. First, how can health inequalities be measured so as to take into account policymakers … information on health inequality be combined with information on the mean of the relevant distribution to obtain an overall … measure of health "achievement?" Applying the approach developed by Wagstaff shows how much worse some countries perform when …

, in a global dataset spanning 118 countries over the past four decades, changes in the share of income of the poorest … quintiles are generally small and uncorrelated with changes in average income. The variation in changes in quintile shares is … variation in income growth in the poorest quintiles. These findings hold across most regions and time periods and when …

Social vulnerability due to insufficient income and earnings may come from many sources, both demographic and economic … will look at the United States, Canada, and Europe using the LIS (Luxembourg Income Study) database, and especially with a … policies on poverty and inequality, and particularly the United Kingdom’s recent program to reduce child poverty. While best …

Intra-household inequality continues to remain a neglected corner despite renewed focus on income and wealth inequality …

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID …)) containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the … world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates in PPP units of monthly real consumption and income for every …