Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and …, as it seems to have a substantial quantitative impact on the measurement of poverty. We also suggest that future research …

Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and …, as it seems to have a substantial quantitative impact on the measurement of poverty. We also suggest that future research …

-units) on inequality and poverty statistics using Irish microdata. We find that benchmark equivalence scales result in … attributable to changes in the adult weight. Inequality statistics tend to be less sensitive to the choice of equivalence scale but ….35. Other inequality metrics, such as the p90p10 ratio, exhibit increased volatility over the business cycle at sub …

for poverty and inequality measurement. Methods that assign each household member a per-adult share of household …To describe and understand the economic inequality in a given so- ciety, it is necessary to understand intra …-household inequality. House- holds can hide important inequalities, but can also be essential units for redistribution in society. This …

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

The main challenge in studying economic inequality is limited data availability, which is particularly problematic in … developing countries. We construct a measure of economic inequality for 234 countries/territories from 1992 to 2013 using … data aggregation, and a calibration of the lights-prosperity relationship to match traditional inequality measures based on …

The Alkire and Foster (2011) methodology, as the mainstream approach to the measurement of multi-dimensional poverty in … the developing world, is insensitive to inequality among the multidimensionally poor individuals and does not consider … measurement (2013, 2017), we propose in this paper to depart somehow from the mainstream approach and take an individual-based and …