inequality more understandable. Second, he derives the impact on the Gini of marginal changes in income or consumption by group … stratification (within the group) and inequality (between groups) along several dimensions at once. This makes the determinants of … applies the analysis to data from Bangladesh, with a focus on how inequality affects land ownership, education, and occupation …

Differing value judgments in measuring inequality underlie the conflicting factual claims about how much poor people … relative inequality versus absolute inequality, vertical inequalities versus horizontal inequalities, and whether they are … consistently individualistic in assessing the extent of inequality. The value judgments on these issues made by both sides need …

income, consumption and expenditure surveys in 1990-91 and 1995-96, which straddled a period of economic volatility and …

based on consumption and assets. It uses the different formulations of life satisfaction in the survey to test robustness to … consumption or assets. Life satisfaction, by contrast, is highly correlated with objective and subjective measures of household … welfare. It generally reflects cross-country differences in average consumption, assets, or per capita gross domestic product …

cash transfer programs may be even more effective during crises to protect the consumption of many essential micro …

the degree of consumption insurance, households'vulnerability to poverty, and household use of formal and informal coping …

consumption and survey means in combination with a Pareto-type imputation of the upper tail, the estimate is a much higher global …

consumption goods such as alcohol and tobacco, non-staple food, transportation and communication, and clothing, while they are … somewhat more likely to spend earned income on basic consumption goods such as staple food, and invest it in education. This …

differences between functionals of two income distributions (such as inequality or poverty measures) into shares because of … Brazilian income distribution and those of Mexico and the United States, and find that most of Brazil's excess income inequality …