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

the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 …Incomes in surveys suffer from various measurement problems, most notably in the tails of their distributions. We study … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality …

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

state taking child poverty as case of study. I use the LIS Database and cross-nationally compare six countries: Brazil … assess in each country to what extent taxes and government transfers reduce the child poverty generated by the market. I use …: Wave VIII (2010), Wave XIX (2013) and Wave X (2016). I cross-nationally compare the relative child poverty at 40%, 50%, and …

There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure … poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …

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