approaches to index numbers; purchasing power parities for the measurement of regional and global inequality and poverty; and … inequality, inequality of opportunity, and measurement of insecurity (Part II); index number theory and applications to consumer … research interests are in the measurement of income inequality and poverty, and the application of Bayesian econometrics, and …

Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 12 is the outgrowth of University of Alabama Poverty and Inequality conference … minimum wage. The Formby-Bishop-Kim paper compares the poverty reducing effects of the minimum wage to two alternative poverty …-Kalb-Scutella compare alternative approaches to measuring poverty and inequality in a discrete hours model. …

Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 9, Inequality, Welfare and Poverty: Theory and Measurement continues the series … theory, economic mobility, issues in empirical estimation, and empirical studies. The theory papers address the link between … estimation papers address data weighting and equivalent scale issues. The final section presents empirical papers on poverty and …