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used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income … use data from the Health and Retirement Study to find income-based poverty rates which we compare with poverty rates as … the relationship between income-based and consumption-based poverty measures. We find that the poverty rate based on …
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used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income … use data from the Health and Retirement Study to find income-based poverty rates which we compare with poverty rates as … the relationship between income-based and consumption-based poverty measures. We find that the poverty rate based on …
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widely used to assess well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income, so an … Retirement Study to find income-based poverty rates which we compare with poverty rates as measured in the Current Population … Survey. We use HRS consumption data to calculate a consumption-based poverty rate and study the relationship between income …
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This paper analyses poverty reduction in Bhutan between two points in time — 2003 and 2007 — from a multidimensional … multidimensional poverty regardless of the indicators’ weights, deprivation cutoffs and identification criterion of the poor. This … poverty among those who were less intensively poor, although not among those who were more intensively poor. Rather than …
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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 …
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been made in the US labour market, using a dynamic panel probit model. The estimated income effect of higher housing wealth … reinforced by wealth and earned income. … is virtually zero and that of financial assets wealth is positive, increasing the retirement probability. The …
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framework that incorporates differences in consumption, leisure, health, mortality, and wealth. We use longitudinal data from … ethnic inequality is larger than suggested by other welfare metrics such as income or consumption. We also find health …, mortality, and wealth gaps are important in explaining the level of racial and ethnic welfare inequality among the older …
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Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is … polarization effects of parental child care where compensation/substitution of time for parental child care versus income is … multidimensional polarization intensity information for the poor and the rich and disentangles the single time and income contribution …
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Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is … polarization effects of parental child care where compensation/substitution of time for parental child care versus income is … multidimensional polarization intensity information for the poor and the rich and disentangles the single time and income contribution …
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