The paper examines the mobility into and out of poverty and identifies the determinants of poverty spell beginnings and … paper offers a snapshot of poverty mobility in Europe calculating the entry and exit poverty rates, along with the … conditional, to the duration of spell, exit probabilities and re-entry rates to poverty. In the second part observed …

Exposure to childhood poverty increases the likelihood of adult poverty. However, past research offers conflicting … accounts of cross-national variation in the strength of the intergenerational persistence of poverty and the mechanisms through … which it is channeled. This study investigates differences in intergenerational poverty in the United States (U …

In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing …, we use all commonly used inequality and poverty measures including various Atkinson indexes, Gini index, standard … deviation of the logarithms, relative mean deviation, coefficient of variation, and the poverty rate defined by the U.S. Census …

A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive 'synthetic panel' data estimates of poverty dynamics … statistics. It builds on the pioneering study by Dang, Lanjouw, Luoto, and McKenzie (Journal of Development Economics, 2014 …

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can … be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and … statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex …

contributes not only to individual but also to societal well-being. Within a novel approach we ask for multidimensional … multidimensional polarization intensity information for the poor and the rich and disentangles the single time and income contribution … between parental child care time and income proved to be significant, but there are multidimensional regions with no …

the fortunes of the same individuals, a longitudinal perspective is required. For this case, we develop dominance …

This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using … distribution of income has become more concentrated at the top, the concentration at the top of the multidimensional well … multidimensional wellbeing at the top which has important policy implications …

Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its … relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning …