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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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international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between wealth … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about …
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relationship between aggregate poverty and SWB is more salient in the upper segments of the income distribution and is robust to …Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty … with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling for individual poverty status and poverty intensity. The negative …
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relationship between aggregate poverty and SWB is more salient in the upper segments of the income distribution and is robust to …Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty … with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling for individual poverty status and poverty intensity. The negative …
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Society drifts apart in many dimensions. Economists focus on income of the poor and rich and the distribution of income … of multidimensional polarization we extend the income dimension by time, a pre-requisite and fundamental resource of any …) polarization compensation between time and income, parameters of a CES-type subjective well-being function, is evaluated …
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