This paper analyzes the dynamics of poverty and income inequality during the recovery phase of the transition that … urban areas. In a context of rising income inequality and widening urban-rural income and poverty gaps, the benefits of … growth were not equally distributed, and poverty persisted in a number of regions (particularly the regions of Latgale and …

movement over time, and their impact on poverty in the case of Poland. Poland, a middle-income country, is of particular … the past few years to reduce poverty while still experiencing positive economic growth. The authors show that in Poland …, poverty-reducing growth depends heavily on the ability of the economy to generate jobs. During the early years of transition …

they incorporate all 55,000 households from the Russian Household Budget Survey as "real" households in the model. This is …, they include foreign direct investment and Dixit-Stiglitz endogenous productivity effects in their trade and poverty … of the estimated gains falling within a range between 2 and 25 percent increases in household income. They show that …

The authors use data from a large nationally representative survey in Russia to analyze the distributional and welfare … implications of draft avoidance as a common response to Russia's highly unpopular conscription system. They develop a simple … theoretical model that describes household compliance decisions with respect to enlistment. The authors use several econometric …

between households. In contrast to previous literature, it shows that between-household inequality explains 3.5 times as much … of the variation as does inequality within households. Within the household, gender, age, and birth order are key … correlates of nutritional outcomes. At the household level and accounting for community-level factors, both an index of …

remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 …

household income and the presence of nutrition interventions in the community. The results show that better nutrition is …

household's ability to save on a regular basis. Due to limited outreach of institutional housing finance, most slum dwellers … rely solely on household savings for purchasing a house. These findings underscore the urgent need to improve savings …

dramatic decline in poverty. Over the same period, child malnutrition rates in Vietnam, as measured by low height for age in … of high economic growth suggests that the nutritional improvements are due to higher household incomes. The authors … investigate whether this causal hypothesis is true by estimating the impact of household income growth on children's nutritional …

The collective approach to household behavior relaxes the restrictive features of the unitary model by specifying … household welfare as a weighted combination of the individuals' utilities. But the weights are assumed fixed or exogenous to the … and simultaneously estimated with the household outcomes. The authors present Nepalese evidence that suggests that a woman …