counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposingchanges in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the tax …

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the …

Poverty measures in developing countries often ignore the distribution of resources within families and the gains from … household resources, though not enough to avoid a very large extent of child poverty compared to what is found in traditional … measures of poverty show that parents are highly compensated by the scale economies due to joint consumption …

Welfare analyses conducted by policy practitioners around the world usually rely on equivalized or per … identifying poor individuals in non-poor households while the traditional approach understates poverty among the poorest …

population are forced to continue income-generating activities to escape extreme poverty or hunger. To assess the trade …-off between poverty and a higher risk of catching COVID-19, we use regional mobility to work and poverty rates across 241 regions … announcements, we measure the differential time variation in work mobility between high and low-poverty regions. We find that the …

The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social … discuss the poverty implications of our results …

The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty effect of these …

Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently … over the past 30 years. Some "anomalies" in the revealed social welfare function suggests introducing transfers to the …

the adult's utility function, which depends on the child's welfare, subject to a budget constraint. The relative effects … of a price subsidy and of a cash benefit on child welfare are then derived. In particular, it is shown that 'favorable … more cost effective than cash transfers in alleviating child poverty …