from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …

tax schemes that alleviate poverty. To avoid conflict with individual well-being, we require redistribution to take place … between agents on both sides of the poverty line provided they have the same labor time. This requirement is combined with … yields the following evaluation criterion: tax schemes should minimize the labor time required to reach the poverty line. We …

of American poverty outcomes and a more fruitful integration of the U.S. into comparative research. The augmentations … address three shortcomings in recent poverty research, including (1) severe measurement error in the data from which U ….S. poverty estimates are most often derived, (2) the conceptualizations of poverty adopted within U.S.-centric research, and (3 …

income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in …We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income growth across the income range, and the reshuffling of individuals in the income pecking order. We use it to explain …

Analysts who have concluded that inequality in life expectancy is increasing have generally focused on life expectancy … in poorer areas with the result that inequality in mortality has fallen substantially over time. This is an important … that today's children are likely to face considerably less inequality in mortality as they age than current adults. We also …

In an article published in Development and Change in 2011, I suggested an alternative measure of inequality to the Gini … article has evolved to become a further attempt at contributing to the literature on inequality and the statistics to measure … it. As in my 2011 paper, in this one I also conclude that if we want to understand why inequality is so unequal across …

In this paper, we analyze the effect of US economic sanctions on the target countries' poverty gap during the period … are indeed affecting the wrong people as we observe a 2.3-5.1 percentage points (pp) larger poverty gap in sanctioned … assets, or embargoes on most or all economic activity are particularly detrimental and lead to an increase in the poverty gap …