Background: Poverty in Korea is not gender neutral. Both male headed and female headed households experience poverty in distinct ways. This research discusses poverty and how it has evolved in Korea from a gender perspective. Methods: It describes the characteristics of poverty among the working...

This study investigates the characteristics that contribute to elderly poverty, mainly focusing on individuals' lifetime work experience. It adopts the heterogeneous relative poverty line which differs by gender, province of residence and over time. It calculates the work experience and obtains...

In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...

La reducción de la fecundidad ha ocurrido en todos los países de la región Latinoamericana, como consecuencia de un descenso en la fecundidad deseada y un aumento en el uso de métodos modernos de planificación familiar. Los descensos en fecundidad -deseada y observada- no han sido...

El documento que presentamos a continuación analiza los determinantes micro y macroeconómicos de la pobreza, estableciendo los efectos que tienen las variables sociodemográficas y los grandes agregados económicos sobre la probabilidad de hallarse en condiciones de pobreza. De esta forma,...

In this paper we analyze if an 'urban mortality penalty' exists for today's developing countries, repeating the history of industrialized nations during the 19th century. We analyze the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) of 19 Sub-Saharan African countries for differences in child and adult...

This study tests whether individuals who grow up with parents on welfare benefits are themselves more (or less) likely to be welfare recipients as young adults, compared to individuals who grow up in non-welfare households. We use the sibling difference method to identify causal effects...

We measure the impact of individuals' looks on life satisfaction/happiness. Using five data sets, from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow placing lower bounds on the effects of beauty. Beauty raises happiness: A one...

Le regole del regime pensionistico contributivo incentivano il proseguimento del lavoro già in corso e, alla pari di quanto avviene per le scelte di lavoro-pensionamento, trattano i casi di cumulo di pensione e reddito da lavoro in maniera finanziariamente e attuarialmente neutra. E' possibile,...

Nei prossimi decenni tutti i Paesi ad economia e welfare sviluppati dovranno fronteggiare spese sanitarie fortemente crescenti, con trend potenziali che nel lungo periodo, al 2050-2060, potrebbero raddoppiare o più che raddoppiare l'incidenza della componente pubblica sul Pil. Così emerge...