contribute to pollution-poverty traps and the results imply that pollution damages are economically significant …

of the population below the poverty line which spends typically a large share of its income on food, we are able to …

poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies … scale and a wife's share that is increasing in total expenditures. We further calculated poverty rates by means of the … collective consumption model. Collective poverty rates of widows and widowers turn out to be slightly lower than traditional ones …

estimate the entire income distribution; computing alternativeinequality indexes and poverty estimates. Finally, we have used … our broad1y comparabledataset to examine international patterns of inequality and poverty. …