poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies … of scale of living in a couple, and a sharing rule that governs the intra-household allocation of resources. The model is … scale and a wife’s share that is increasing in total expenditures. We further calculated poverty rates by means of the …

The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition … using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measure poverty using income and consumption and contrast the effects of … various poverty lines. Poverty in both periods follows some of the determinants commonly identified in the literature …

We use the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) household survey from postconflict Kosovo to examine economic … deprivation among Serbs and Albanians. Economic deprivation is measured by per capita household expenditure and by the incidence … of poverty as captured by the headcount ratio. We examine the roles played by the stock of attributes and by the impact …

benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of …

quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed … the heights of children. No such effects are found for the body mass index (BMI). We find that household income per capita … of cleanliness or hygiene in the household, which conditions exposure to factors predisposing to disease. We also analyse …

The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is … sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? ‘Poverty’ is interpreted broadly and hence the …

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the …