In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to ?household impoverishment?. Subjective …, estimates based on the Bank of Italy?s Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income …

for each member of a household. We assess the effects of two types of edit check questions on measurement error and survey …Household income is difficult to measure, since it requires collecting information about all potential income sources … suggest that traditional interviewing methods under-estimate household income in the lower tail of the income distribution …

poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies … of scale of living in a couple, and a sharing rule that governs the intra-household allocation of resources. The model is … scale and a wife's share that is increasing in total expenditures. We further calculated poverty rates by means of the …

This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE … (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project. A measure of the household's disposable annual income is used …. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in Sweden) to 22 percent (in Switzerland). Logistic regression estimates show …

The paper investigates the definition of equity-regarding poverty measures when there are different household types in … choice of poverty lines and for the measurement of living standard. The role of equivalence scales which are popular in … empirical work on poverty measurement is clarified. …

-state to the household, and particularly to poor households in the transition and developing economies of the former Soviet … exacerbate these problems. By calling attention to growing household vulnerability to energy and water insecurities, particularly …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … based on equivalent income. These differences are illustrated using household-level panel data from Russia and Vietnam. …-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity - aspects emphasized in prospect theory - to social welfare measurement. We …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … equivalent income. These differences are illustrated using household-level panel data from Russia and Vietnam. …-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity - aspects emphasized in Prospect Theory - to social welfare measurement. We …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … reporting, the EU-SILC data are of great international significance for comparative EU-wide measurement, description, and … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through …

Concomitant to the analysis of poverty is the measurement of vulnerability. Estimates of household vulnerability to … household characteristics. Resulting vulnerability estimates are found to be higher than poverty rates, suggesting that policy … income poverty are developed using a modified probit model that considers volatilities in income as being explained by some …