Poverty rates calculated on the basis of different definitions of consumption may reveal substantial biases, but under … poverty rates are only rarely based on identical underlying definitions of welfare. The authors examine the sensitivity of … poverty rates calculated from alternative definitions of consumption. They consider what theory can say about the direction of …

estimate bias attributable to intergenerational poverty descents. Using simple experiments and data from India, poverty …

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

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

I discuss the applicability of the recentered influence function (RIF) to the analysis of poverty differentials between … in the empirical literature estimates the relationship between individual poverty functions of additive measures … their poverty function, this approach is simply a specific case of the onestage recentered influence function decomposition …

A key element of anti-poverty policy is the accurate identification of poor individuals. However, measuring poverty at … collective household model offers an alternative and promising framework to estimate poverty at the individual level while …