The paper examines the outcomes of youth not in education, employment or training (NEET) up to four years after the initial long-term spell of NEET. The paper covers outcomes of NEETs in relation to benefit receipt, education, employment and future inactivity. These outcomes are compared across...

This article, using ERF-LIS harmonized microdata, develops an empirical model to investigate the unexplored extent and fuel poverty explanatory factors in Egypt and Jordan. First, we use the "Low income - High Consumption" indicator to measure the fuel poverty extent. Second, we implement a...

The net impact of development interventions can depend on the availability of close substitutes to the intervention. We analyze a randomized trial of an innovative anti-poverty program in South India which provides “ultra-poor” households with inputs to create a new, sustainable livelihood....

In this paper, Gini Regression Analysis (Olkin and Yitzhaki 1992) is applied to check the robustness of the positive correlation of the number of billionaires, billionaires' wealth, and the GDP per-capita, as reported in Prinz (2016). Although Gini Regression Analysis (GRA) as a method exists...

This article, using ERF-LIS harmonized microdata, develops an empirical model to investigate the unexplored extent and fuel poverty explanatory factors in Egypt and Jordan. First, we use the "Low income - High Consumption" indicator to measure the fuel poverty extent. Second, we implement a...

The paper estimates an earnings frontier by the method of Corrected Ordinary Least Squares (COLS) and categorizes households as efficient or inefficient based on some benchmark efficiency score and the estimated frontier. The spatial distribution of the poor and non poor households is then...

Behind a Veil of Ignorance, the Social Planner's problem of choosing from a collection of diverse wellbeing distributions is akin to a problem of individual decision making under uncertainty. This interpretation provides a rationale for applying the concept of Stochastic Dominance Optimality in...

For ranking incomparable prospects, a ‘Utopia Index' measuring the proximity to a lower envelope of integrated distribution functions is proposed. The analysis generalizes the existing Almost Stochastic Dominance concept from pairwise comparison to a joint analysis of an arbitrary number of...

Ranking groups (schools, regions, counties) according to the average score of their constituent parts - say, ranking schools by the academic achievements of students - is a common yardstick in evaluation and a cornerstone of any planning process. In this paper we show that under certain...

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the housing sector remains an important challenge for a climate policy. This study provides new evidence on the ability of Poles inhabiting single-family houses to reduce the pressure on the environment as income grows. We apply the environmental Kuznets...