This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s, which dramatically limited cash … of the reforms for the next generation.Using two nationally-representative datasets, we exploit differences in welfare … plausibly causal effects of welfare reform on a range of prosocial and antisocial behaviors (volunteering, participating in …

in mortality. The results suggest that gains in life expectancy had a welfare value equivalent to 39% of the growth in … income per capita, being therefore responsible for 28% of the overall improvement in welfare. We then use a dynamic panel to …

Non-cash benefits can have substantial effects on the distribution of economic welfare. Standard approaches to the …

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 …

This study examines the enduring spatial and racial dimensions of poverty and deprivation in South Africa to assess the … progress made by the post-apartheid society and state. A multi-dimensional approach is required to assess progress because it … services. While there has been previous studies tracking poverty trends over segments of the post-apartheid period, no previous …

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions … approach by contrasting Canada and the US using comparable data. Canada dominates the US over the lower bi-dimensional welfare …