poverty among mothers after childbirth and divorce/separation. The analysis was carried out for twelve EU countries, which …. Countries with low post-childbirth poverty include those with an explicit pro-natalist orientation and socio-democratic regimes …. High post-childbirth poverty rates are found in pro-traditional and South European conservative countries, and especially …

PROGRESA poverty alleviation program to examine the performance of a quasi-experimental estimator, the regression discontinuity … noneligible households in the control localities. This paper - a product of the Poverty and Gender Unit, Latin America and the … Caribbean Region - is part of a larger effort in the region to develop and apply rigorous methods in the evaluation of poverty …

This paper examines the impact of severe wildfire events on Bolivia's poverty and labor market outcomes. We use a panel … Interactive Fixed Effects Counterfactual Estimator, we estimate the causal effects of severe wildfire events on poverty, household … per-capita income, and the agricultural sector. We find a significant short-term increase in poverty explained by a …

We develop a poverty decomposition method that is based on a consumption regression model. Because this method uses an … integral of the partial derivatives of a poverty measure with respect to time, the resulting poverty decomposition satisfies … time-reversion consistency and sub-period additivity. Unlike the existing poverty decomposition methods, it allows us to …

We adapt the standardized Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software (PLEASe) computer code stream based on Arndt and … Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in 2000, 2005, and 2011. Several data …-related issues create challenges to estimating the spatial and temporal distribution of poverty in a manner that meets both …

Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in … international development dialogue and policy. An assumption underpinning these poverty counts is that there are no economies of … global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative household …

of poverty risk offers a picture of poverty determinants and cross country poverty differences more reliable than that … share of social product—a proxy for class struggle—have strong but differentiated effects on poverty reduction. However … of estimated coefficients. Hence, definition and implementation of any European policy against poverty should consider …

Poverty line definitions in use often lack a solid scientific foundation. This paper proposes to exploit data on income … satisfaction to construct an evidence-based poverty line. The poverty line is identified by using its assumed unique property to …-Economic Panel yields a temporally stable poverty line similar to the definition provided by the Statistical Office of the European …

The paper examines the mobility into and out of poverty and identifies the determinants of poverty spell beginnings and … paper offers a snapshot of poverty mobility in Europe calculating the entry and exit poverty rates, along with the … conditional, to the duration of spell, exit probabilities and re-entry rates to poverty. In the second part observed …