1970 -- the income gap between the US and the sending country, the education gap between the US and the sending country …

well-being associated with a marginal increase in income is larger for poorer than for richer populations. This hypothesis … that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher-income … group (majority population). Further, the correlation between income and emotional well-being does not differ between the …

Available data indicates a growing urban-rural income gap (the ratio of mean urban to rural incomes) with a significant … rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … poverty gap attributable to mean income over time being below the poverty line. Resulting estimates of 40-50 % transient …

In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data … mothers. Our earlier work did not show that income and consumption differ in practice. Here we further examine data quality … issues and show that important conclusions about recent trends depend on whether one uses consumption or income. Changes in …

impact of the current pandemic on income and poverty to inform the targeting of resources to those most affected and assess … the success of current efforts. We construct new measures of the income distribution and poverty with a lag of only a few … weeks using high frequency data from the Basic Monthly Current Population Survey (CPS), which collects income information …

used to improve the study and function of cities. We first show how Google Street View images can be used to predict income …

We evaluate consumption and income measures of the material well-being of the poor. We begin with conceptual and … pragmatic reasons that favor income or consumption. Then, we empirically examine the quality of standard data by studying … aggregates. We also compare low reports of income and consumption to other measures of hardship and well-being. The closer link …

consumption is rarely measured because its collection requires a great deal of survey time. As a result income has been widely … used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income …, an income-based measure of well-being could yield misleading results for many households, especially at older ages. We …