the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …

measures of consumption and income from household surveys. Using a new compilation of more than 2,000 household surveys matched … growth, poverty, and inequality. We find that typicalsurvey measures of consumption and income may exaggerate poverty …

The at-risk-of-poverty rate, the relative income poverty indicator applied in the EU, can be highly sensitive to the … weight, which is very close to the OECD-modified weight. Applying the estimated scales affects the income poverty rate and … used, the official income poverty rate deviates from those two. …

poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …

Poverty prediction models are used by economists to address missing data issues in a variety of contexts such as … poverty profiling, targeting with proxy-means tests, cross-survey imputations such as poverty mapping, or vulnerability … models to predict poverty under these different scenarios. It finds that the quality of predictions and the choice of the …

adults and children. It documents that there are substantial inequalities within households in some contexts and that these … often, but not always, disfavor women and children. The paper also discusses the importance of intra-household allocations … for poverty and inequality measurement. Methods that assign each household member a per-adult share of household …

This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data …