differences when measuring poverty, there is little reliable evidence on how these factors actually affect poverty estimates … account by using municipal housing price indices or by replacing the country-specific poverty line with municipal …-specific poverty lines. Applying Norwegian register data for the period 1993-2001, we find that disregarding the value of local public …

As an alternative to the conventional methods for measuring chronic poverty, this paper proposes an interpersonal … comparable measure of permanent income as a basis for defining and measuring chronic poverty. This approach accounts for the fact … proposed method proves useful for evaluating the theoretical basis of the standard methods for measuring chronic poverty …

There is a heated debate in many European countries about a move towards a welfare system that increases the incentives … for lone mothers to move off welfare and into work. We analyze the consequences of a major Norwegian workfare reform of … the generous welfare system for lone mothers. Our difference-in-differences estimates show that the policy changes were …

, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and poverty rates by almost one-third. However, adjusting for differences in needs for public services across population … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease …

dominance criteria and the corresponding subfamilies of social welfare functions. To perform inference, we develop asymptotic … ranking can be attained without introducing weaker criteria than second-degree stochastic dominance. The conventional approach … framework to unambiguously rank any set of distribution functions and quantify the social welfare level of a dominating …

no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria than first-degree Lorenz dominance. To … deal with such situations Aaberge (2009) introduced two alternative sequences of nested dominance criteria for Lorenz … measures into subfamilies according to their relationship to Lorenz dominance of various degrees. Since the various criteria of …

credit market imperfections. The second step aggregates permanent incomes across individuals into measures of social welfare … well as on population shares. Moreover, a subfamily is shown to be associated with social welfare functions that have …

argue the determinants of poverty or poor health are correlated across generations, so that children's welfare participation …Strong intergenerational correlations in various types of welfare use have fueled a long-standing debate over whether … welfare receipt in one generation causes welfare participation in the next generation. Some claim a causal relationship in …