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 …

We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the … uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic human capabilities for three countries: Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Vietnam …. We compute standard errors of the resulting poverty estimates and compare the incidence of poverty across these three …

Poverty and inequality are often estimated from grouped data as complete household surveys are neither always available … these methods, we use unit data from several household surveys and theoretical distributions. We find that poverty and … associated with poverty measures are rarely larger than one percentage point. For data from multi-peaked or heavily skewed …

the relationship between immigration, poverty and demand for redistribution requires in-depth investigations by population … immigration and poverty. We find that information about immigration has a negative impact on demanded redistributive taxation among … middle income respondents and a positive one among low income earners, while information about poverty has no impact. On the …

large, associated shift in the structure of income. The paper also looks at the incidence and depth of poverty over the … period 1992-96. At the start of transition, roughly half the population of households fell below the poverty line. While this … has subsequently declined, at end-1996 nearly 40 percent of households were below the poverty line and a substantial …

new dataset of consistent inequality series,allowing us to explore problems of measurement error. In addition, the new … estimate the entire income distribution; computing alternativeinequality indexes and poverty estimates. Finally, we have used … our broad1y comparabledataset to examine international patterns of inequality and poverty. …

equilibrium concept for personal income distribution which is located in status theory and which can explain why a certain or …

We introduce a skewness-based approach to measure tax progression and demand for redistribution. We provide a political … redistribution (Meltzer and Richard, 1981) and the Prospect Of Upward Mobility (POUM) mechanism (Benabou and Ok, 2001), as well as … enough that the observed redistribution (or lack thereof) could be consistent with the POUM hypothesis, more recent periods …