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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 …
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measurement error and under-reporting, and by comparing micro-data from standard surveys to administrative micro-data and … between consumption and well-being and its better measurement favors the use of consumption when setting benefits and …
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well-being in place of measures based on current money income docs change conclusions concerning the extent of poverty in … the United Stales. Using the official federal poverty thresholds. we find that the overall consumption poverty rate was … three percentage points below the income poverty rate in 1988. Comparisons of the poverty rates of the elderly and the non …
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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 …
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Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element of the distribution of welfare that can vary dramatically depending on overall environmental and economic factors. Thus, measures of inequality that ignore intra household...
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We review the empirical evidence on the relationship between Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty based on the … measurement and identification difficulties, and despite conflicting evidence on some issues, empirical work based on country case …
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compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen …
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Beginning in May 2009 we fielded a monthly Internet survey designed to measure total household spending as the aggregate of about 40 spending components. This paper reports on a number of outcomes from 30 waves of data collection. These outcomes include sample attrition, indicators of data...
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Millions of goods and services are now unavailable in many countries due to the current coronavirus pandemic, dramatically impacting on the construction of key economic statistics used for informing policy. This situation is unprecedented; hence methods to address it have not previously been...
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Information frictions imply it is reasonable to expect the same commodity, in a given location, to sell for different prices at the same time. Aguiar and Hurst (AH) [2007] demonstrate how the search behavior implied by these price differences can be used estimate the opportunity cost of time....
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