standards in pre-famine Ireland. The approach is explicitly comparative and makes use of information from America and other …

of FDI on household welfare is more difficult than measuring the effect of trade policy, and may pose a difficulty for … the view of FDI as a general anti-poverty strategy …

individuals had some form of insurance, which helped surviving household members defray some fraction of funeral expenses. However … observed social status of the household and that of the deceased. Households that cannot afford a funeral commensurate with … consistent with our model of household decision-making …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975 …-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main … impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged …

rates. We estimate the present-discounted cost to the median household who fails to refinance to be approximately $11 …

participants. These patterns conceal strong household-level evidence of active rebalancing, which on average offsets about one half …

In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data … consumption. Measures of overall and sub-group poverty also sharply differ. In addition to examining broader populations and a …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …