This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE …. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in Sweden) to 22 percent (in Switzerland). Logistic regression estimates show … increased likelihood of poverty. Less risk of poverty can be found among those that have supervision over the workplace, have …

1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely … high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in …

important for women (e.g., the presence of children and participation in leisure-time activities). …

Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more … as a way of combating poverty. This paper investigates whether or not SHG participation results in reducing poverty and …. Going beyond the traditional poverty estimates, we use a vulnerability measure which quantifies the welfare loss associated …

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households … in the poverty rates between the scheduled castes (or tribes) and non-scheduled households into a part explained by the …

This paper evaluates the impact of a large macroeconomic shock on poverty. In particular, we use longitudinal data from … countries in order to quantify changes in poverty transition patterns caused by the 2007 global financial crisis. Because the … substantial macroeconomic shock on poverty. Employing semiparametric mixed discrete time survival analysis, we find that …

of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its …

of social preferences by providing mechanisms through which parents transmit preferences for generosity to their children …. Then, we conduct a field experiment with nearly 150 3-5 year old children and their parents, measuring (1) whether child … and parent generosity is correlated, (2) whether children are influenced by their parents when making sharing decisions …