whether such income fluctuations affect risk preference among the poor. If risk preference temporarily changes around payday …, optimal decisions made before payday may no longer be optimal afterward, which could reinforce poverty. By exploiting Social … Security payday cycles in the US, we find that risk preference among the poor relying heavily on Social Security changes around …

This paper shows how to take into account risk aversion when measuring poverty under income variability. An application … order to account for risk aversion and income variability in the measurement of poverty. … to British panel data suggests that income and poverty comparisons between the self-employed and other groups of …

This paper studies poverty as a dynamic phenomenon, motivated by the recurring economic crises that affect developing … still lack a unified framework. Echoing Atkinson (1987), this paper addresses the question of how poverty should be measured …

-adjusted income and poverty measures and to analyze their determinants. Taking risk into account increases poverty. The regression …Relying on a Constant Relative Risk Aversion utility function, we use panel data for Argentina to compute risk …

We looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and … compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample elicited by the same decision task. Strong risk … students, but peasants were more risk averse. Testing for the effect of socio-economic variables on uncertainty attitudes …

The objective of this study was to examine the role of social security in fighting poverty in Metlaoui, Tunisia, using … of risk. Social security has an effect on a number of different areas, including health, education, housing, and income …. Our methodology explored both complete and partial risk-sharing, to investigate the impact of social security schemes on …

analysis shows that shocks and household coping behavior help to explain the observed poverty dynamics. The single low …Using a micro-level approach to poverty traps, this paper explores welfare dynamics among households in post-war rural … Mozambique. Conceptually, the paper builds on an asset-based approach to poverty and tests empirically, with household panel data …

analysis shows that shocks and household coping behavior help to explain the observed poverty dynamics. The single low …Using a micro-level approach to poverty traps, this paper explores welfare dynamics among households in post-war rural … Mozambique. Conceptually, the paper builds on an asset-based approach to poverty and tests empirically, with household panel data …

analysis shows that shocks and household coping behavior help to explain the observed poverty dynamics. The single low …Using a micro-level approach to poverty traps, this paper explores welfare dynamics among households in post-war rural … Mozambique. Conceptually, the paper builds on an asset-based approach to poverty and tests empirically, with household panel data …

analysis shows that shocks and household coping behavior help to explain the observed poverty dynamics. The single low …Using a micro-level approach to poverty traps, this paper explores welfare dynamics among households in post-war rural … Mozambique. Conceptually, the paper builds on an asset-based approach to poverty and tests empirically, with household panel data …