We use a controlled laboratory experiment to study the causal impact of income decreases within a time period on …, we investigate the effect of a negative income trend (intra-personal decrease), which means a decreasing income compared … to one's recent past. Second, we investigate the effect of a negative income trend relative to the income trend of …

In this paper we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … in Spain between 2005 and 2018. We construct individual measures of income risk as functions of past employment history …, income, and demographics. Focusing on males, we document that income risk is highly unequal in Spain: more than half of the …

A key challenge for policymakers is how to design methods to select beneficiaries of social programs when income is … increases social welfare. A dynamic method that uses data on shocks to estimate a variable component of income reduces exclusion …

to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject … equal sharing, and find large gender gaps in resource shares, and consequently in poverty rates, in some countries. …

This paper examines the allocation of resources of poverty rates within households in Suriname. To this end we employ a …