Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses … of the assumption and explored alternative methods to account for time deficits in the measurement of poverty. I … individual approaches. I also propose a two-dimensional, time-income poverty measure that accounts for intrahousehold disparities …

Poverty involves both low income levels and high income uncertainty. Do both these dimensions of being poor capture … attention in ways that distort decision-making and trap people in poverty? We examine these issues using real-life shocks faced … the poorest households. The net adverse impacts on cognitive function prevail even though both dimensions of poverty …