Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus yield a biased assessment of individual poverty and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show … that the direction of the bias depends on how these measures use individual data to determine the poverty status of …

individual-level poverty rates that account for intra-household inequality. We show that women, children, and the elderly face …Anti-poverty policies often aim to reach poor individuals by targeting poor households. However, intra … significant probabilities of living in poverty even in households with per-capita expenditure above the poverty threshold …

We examine how much of an extra dollar of parental lifetime resources will ultimately be passed on to adult children in … of adult children is through transfers and bequests and about 85 percent is through the intergenerational correlation in … the number of children. We compare our estimates to the implications of alternative computable benchmark models of savings …

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of … poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during data collection for a large household … panel (RUSSET). We estimate poverty using a subjective approach, where the level of the poverty line is derived using the …

, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel … of data for more than 80 countries from 1981 to 2005, we find that income instability results in a lower poverty …

This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of … poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during data collection for a large household … panel (RUSSET). We estimate poverty using a subjective approach, where the level of the poverty line is derived using the …

genuine state dependence in poverty. We also provide estimates of low income transition rates and lengths of poverty and non-poverty …

the "poor/non-poor" classification in the first stage. -- Multidimensional welfare ; poverty ; factory analysis ; clusters …