poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies … of scale of living in a couple, and a sharing rule that governs the intra-household allocation of resources. The model is … scale and a wife's share that is increasing in total expenditures. We further calculated poverty rates by means of the …

-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We … do so by combining household data with population census and village survey records. Our results show that conditional on … own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction levels when they experience an increase in their income over …

In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to ?household impoverishment?. Subjective …, estimates based on the Bank of Italy?s Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income …

combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …

quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed … the heights of children. No such effects are found for the body mass index (BMI). We find that household income per capita … of cleanliness or hygiene in the household, which conditions exposure to factors predisposing to disease. We also analyse …

or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country … poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It … what minimum wage policies alone can achieve in the fight against in-work poverty. The route of raising minimum wages to …

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

We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally …

. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household - level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan …