Using data from the Mexican National Household Income and Expenditure Surveys, we decompose the effects of returns to … household characteristics and geographical variables to determine the relative importance of these factors in explaining the … rising income inequality experienced in the 1984-94 period. Whereas household characteristics explain the largest share of …

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 …, which are issues that have been much more explored in the literature. The sensitivity analysis is applied to household …