Do people care about income inequality and does income inequality affect subjective well-being? Welfare theories can … predict either a positive or a negative impact of income inequality on subjective well-being and empirical research has found … such empirical heterogeneity. Using a very large sample of world citizens, the author tests the consistency of income …

This paper examines how parents' early childhood exposure to a refugee crisis impacts their children's health status …. Based on Demographic and Health Survey data from Tanzania with the migration history of mothers and fathers, the analysis …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad … poverty estimates based on administrative data that fall within a 95 percent margin of poverty estimates based on survey …

. Further, there is now a consensus on adopting more ambitious goals on poverty reduction. Defining social protection as a … collection of programs that address risk, vulnerability, inequality and poverty through a system of transfers in cash or in kind …: Indicators of Resilience and Equity (ASPIRE) data set. Focusing on the goal of ending poverty, the paper estimates that social …

income or expenditure, such as the poverty gap or the Gini index of inequality. The newly produced time-series of poverty …The paper shows how Labor Force Surveys can be used effectively to estimate poverty rates using Household Expenditure … 2007), the paper estimates quarterly poverty rates for the period 2001-2010 by imputing household expenditures into the …

The measurement of multidimensional poverty has been advocated by most welfare scholars and is experiencing a growth in … one of the least explored approaches -- Multiple Correspondence Analysis -- to assess multidimensional poverty in Morocco … poverty: it generates a matrix of "weights" based on the variance-covariance matrix of all welfare dimensions selected and …

generalized Gini for the measurement of distributional change. Population- and income-weighted relative deprivation indices are … of their satisfaction with income. The analysis finds that the deprivation indices proposed are consistently and … negatively correlated with income satisfaction as reported by respondents, that income weighted measures fit better than …

income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross … measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of … system, the proposed methodology offers out-of-sample predicted poverty rates. These estimates are not statistically …