poverty and wellbeing. This framing is reflective of Brazil's national narrative on race relations and the idea that class and … employment status have been the most salient barriers to social welfare protections. Brazil's widely well-regarded anti-poverty … systems offers important lessons on how poverty relief can further human development and enhance agency. Future reformers can …

gender asymmetry in poverty can account for a substantial fraction of these missing women. Using a natural experiment, I link … profile of women's bargaining power and construct relative poverty rates for women. I find that bargaining power declines with … age, and that women's relative poverty rates closely match their higher than expected mortality rates by age. This match …

ication of a poverty line or particular poverty measures . The paper introduces three alternative principles of targeting …

Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty … with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling for individual poverty status and poverty intensity. The negative … relationship between aggregate poverty and SWB is more salient in the upper segments of the income distribution and is robust to …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …

and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life … period and by the most conservative definition, over 120 million additional years were spent in poverty because of the … poverty burden, on the contrary, declines with per capita national incomes when a constant absolute poverty line is used, or …

Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty … with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling for individual poverty status and poverty intensity. The negative … relationship between aggregate poverty and SWB is more salient in the upper segments of the income distribution and is robust to …

poverty.The basic premise of the work-first model that continuing participation in the labor force will lead to economic self … at least three quarters a year over a multi-year period, which are the prerequisites for rising above the poverty … these workers to the poverty threshold would increase economic output by another three-quarters of a billion dollars a year …

The fast food industry has a larger share of its workers in poverty than any other industry. The combination of low …

The present paper explores the link between poverty as capability deprivation and current life satisfaction. Using … achievements. The results indicate that poverty as capability deprivation reduces life satisfaction in a statistically and …. -- Subjective well-being ; life satisfaction ; capability approach ; poverty ; adaptation …