traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and, to a …

This paper tests the sensitivity of poverty indexes to the choice of adult equivalence scales, assumptions about the … handle income misreporting. We also perform sensitivity analysis to the use of different poverty lines and poverty indexes … of the total population. Additionally, the ranking of countries with respect to poverty is also highly sensitive. This …

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

positive average effects on employment, earnings, and income, and generally negative effects on poverty rates, although the …

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 …

economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …