There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money-metric measures) do not take into account out of pocket payments of health care. Significant household health spending would overestimate total household expenditure, which results in...

EU-SILC is an essential tool for research on social policy. This article compiles, on one hand, the applications of this survey by the Office of the High Commissioner against Child Poverty in Spain. This Office used the Spanish version of the survey on fields such as the design of a minimum...

US Census Bureau poverty measures do not include an explicit need for health care or insurance nor do they consider health insurance benefits to be resources. Consequently, they cannot measure the direct impact of health insurance benefits on poverty. This paper reviews conceptual and practical...