Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty … measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …

Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left …

better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …

World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 … of the global poverty count in 2006 are much smaller than found by other researchers. We also find similar reductions in …

these episodes to examine the idea that the lower tail of the wealth distribution reflects in part a wealth-based poverty … unusual opportunities to assess the long-term impact of large shocks to wealth, as winning was uncorrelated with individual … trap because of limited access to capital. Using wealth measured in the 1850 Census manuscripts, we follow up on a sample …

This paper depicts and analyzes the wealth distribution and wealth mobility in a national sample of nearly 1 … measure, and a regression model of wealth accumulation are estimated from these data. The findings shed light on theories of … the wealth distribution, life-cycle behavior, regional economic performance, and the empirical basis for critiques of …

Using novel data on 50,000 Norwegian men, we study the effect of wealth on the probability of internal or international … do so by exploiting variation in parental wealth and in expected inheritance by birth order, gender composition of … siblings, and region. We find that wealth discouraged migration in this era, suggesting that the poor could be more likely to …