We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … panel data on 49,000 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2012 to uncover three empirical relationships. First, life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been …

-economic panel data from Vietnam to calculate environmental income variables and a multi-dimensional poverty index (MPI). MPIs have …The environmental-poverty nexus has been subject to research especially in relation to climate change. On the one hand … been developed to understand poverty in more detail and implement more efficient policies to lift people out of poverty. We …

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this … poverty status of households, while the impact of these assumptions on inequality between individual cannot be determined a …

of their practical importance for the measurement of inequality and poverty, a large number of methods for the estimation … estimate are close to the modified OECD scale. Calculating the Gini coefficient, we find that the at-risk-of-poverty rate and … inequality and poverty. We conclude that differences in estimation methods for equivalence scales might be less important than …

poverty measures to include a temporal dimension. Using panel data from rural India, we show how conventional poverty measures …Poverty is typically measured as insufficient yearly income or consumption. In practice, however, poverty is marked by … can distort understandings of poverty: exposure to poverty is wider and more common than typically measured, and poverty …