This article introduces a new matrix approach, based on pairwise income comparisons, to decompose the Atkinson-Plotnick-Kakwani re-ranking measure when income units are gathered into groups. As it is known the Atkinson-Plotnick-Kakwani re-ranking measure is defined by the difference between the...

In response to the low fertility rate and high child poverty in Poland, the government implemented the Family 500+ program which provides cash transfers to families with two or more children, and low-income, one-child families. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we explore the causal...

The article assesses the economic condition of households in a time frame view (2000-2016) in the light of income and expenditure (including food expenditure) on an all-Poland scale. It compares selected relations of these categories and indicates the economic health of the households in...

The increase in the share of the number of older people in the Polish population requires constant diagnosis of the degree of satisfying their needs. One of the ways of such assessment is the dynamic analysis of changes in the goods and services consumption. The author's research task was to...