reducing the poverty rate by almost one percentage point more, a 75 percent increase over the survey estimate. …

methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered … aggregates. We use Georgia as a case study to compare these methods and assess impacts on poverty and inequality. The proportion … transportation costs can result in up to a 40% reduction in the measured poverty rate among remote-working households. …

from Bangladesh and Mexico, and use the model estimates to compute poverty rates for men, women, and children. Contrary to … existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take …

This paper explores the feasibility of calculating absolute poverty lines on the basis of minimum food expenditures in … the developing world deliver either inadequate poverty estimates in rich countries characterised by a relatively low food … application of the new method using household budget survey data from Italy shows that resulting poverty estimates are in line …

.Widowhood poverty is no greater than that overall,but the picture changes dramatically if we allow economies of household size …

of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also … derives estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially …

in the Netherlands, and contains information on teenage time use, income, expenditures, and subjective measures of well … social interactions. For some types of behavior (e.g. truancy, smoking, pocket money, alcohol expenditures) endogenous social …

we re-interviewed original as well as newly formed households (split-offs), we show that headcount poverty decreased by 3 ….5 % points when split-off households are taken into account and 1% when splits are left out. Poverty is persistent while …