state taking child poverty as case of study. I use the LIS Database and cross-nationally compare six countries: Brazil …, Colombia, Panama, Peru, Russia, and South Africa. I created an income package to include a variety of income definitions based … assess in each country to what extent taxes and government transfers reduce the child poverty generated by the market. I use …

affected the income position of high-income pensioners. However, also the structure of public pension benefits had a poverty …

the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …

Family 500 +) on inequality and poverty. The analysis is based on micro-level household data from the Luxembourg Income Study … (LIS) and Statistics Poland. We examine the changes in various indicators of inequality and poverty (Gini index, subjective … and relative poverty rates) and their decomposition. We find evidence that the program substantially reduces inequality …

of American poverty outcomes and a more fruitful integration of the U.S. into comparative research. The augmentations … address three shortcomings in recent poverty research, including (1) severe measurement error in the data from which U ….S. poverty estimates are most often derived, (2) the conceptualizations of poverty adopted within U.S.-centric research, and (3 …

-government poverty rates climb by three to four percentage points once we account for households’ medical expenses. We find that …