This paper examines various aspects of elderly poverty and its measurement. It first discusses some of the most … important issues relating to measuring elderly poverty. It then reviews recent trends in elderly poverty, which show … considerable heterogeneity in the extent of elderly poverty even among developed countries. Such cross-country differences are due …

poverty measures. Nevertheless, policymakers, researchers, advocates, and legislators generally do not understand the details … of poverty measure mechanics. These detailed mechanics shape and reshape poverty measures and the too often uninformed … responses and remedies. This Article will build a bridge from personal portraits of families living in poverty to the resource …

used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income … authors use data from the Health and Retirement Study to find income-based poverty rates which they compare with poverty rates … as measured in the Current Population Survey. They use HRS consumption data to calculate a consumption-based poverty rate …

measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves …. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy intrahousehold index which is less sensitive to small changes around the … poverty line compared to standard FGT indices and produce more reliable results. This provides an interesting approach to …

lead to biased estimates of income and poverty of the aged population. In this paper, the authors evaluate income estimates … Security, and a lower estimated rate of poverty. They also find that the HRS provides better estimates of the income of the …

This study explores the relationship between household poverty and depth of informality by proposing a new measure of …