poverty among individuals within the same family structure. Background: Family structure is a dominant explanation for racial … inequality in poverty. This overemphasis on an “individual-level” variable results in relatively less attention to the role of … structure intersect in the context of poverty. Method: We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study, the American Community …

Changes in household structures and employment patterns alter the balance between households with an above- versus a … below-average poverty risk while also affecting relative income poverty thresholds. Examining eleven countries for which … household composition and employment exhibited some common features but also very substantial variation. The share of single …

Equivalence scales are often used to adjust household income for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For … those implied by the ‘square root of household size’ equivalence scale. Our results have important implications when …

Intra-household inequality continues to remain a neglected corner despite renewed focus on income and wealth inequality … to inequality within the household. Using a simple normative measure of inequality, we comment on the welfare …

over four decades of global data (n =2.85 million couple units, from 45 countries in the LIS repository) we show that intra-household … earnings inequality within a household is systemic, prevalent across disparate societies, and across the entire earnings … distribution. Our analysis shows why accounting for intra-household gender inequality is crucial to ameliorating the pandemic …

We examine the poverty rates and the income configurations among Japan and the LIS countries. The LIS countries are … Germany, Italy, the UK, Denmark, the US, and Taiwan. We divide household including elderly into five types: living alone … decreasing recently in Japan. In Japan and Taiwan even in households cohabiting with children, the poverty rates and income …

In this study, we examined to what extent family policies differently affect poverty among single-parent households and …, family policies reduced poverty to a greater extent among single-parent households. Paid leave more effectively facilitated … the employment of single parents, thereby reducing their poverty more than among two-parent households. Family allowances …

. I analyze disposable household income data (after taxes and transfers) from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) and other …