used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income … use data from the Health and Retirement Study to find income-based poverty rates which we compare with poverty rates as … the relationship between income-based and consumption-based poverty measures. We find that the poverty rate based on …

used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income … use data from the Health and Retirement Study to find income-based poverty rates which we compare with poverty rates as … the relationship between income-based and consumption-based poverty measures. We find that the poverty rate based on …

widely used to assess well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income, so an … Retirement Study to find income-based poverty rates which we compare with poverty rates as measured in the Current Population … Survey. We use HRS consumption data to calculate a consumption-based poverty rate and study the relationship between income …

This paper analyses poverty reduction in Bhutan between two points in time — 2003 and 2007 — from a multidimensional … multidimensional poverty regardless of the indicators’ weights, deprivation cutoffs and identification criterion of the poor. This … poverty among those who were less intensively poor, although not among those who were more intensively poor. Rather than …

This paper examines various aspects of elderly poverty and its measurement. It first discusses some of the most … important issues relating to measuring elderly poverty. It then reviews recent trends in elderly poverty, which show … considerable heterogeneity in the extent of elderly poverty even among developed countries. Such cross-country differences are due …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …

international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between wealth … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about …

value of future income streams - to the wealth that would be needed to generate expected poverty-line income in future years … percent of poverty-line income over their expected future lifetimes. Our second measure is the ratio of the annuitized value …We construct two measures of the current wealth adequacy of older U.S. households using the 1998-2006 waves of the …

been made in the US labour market, using a dynamic panel probit model. The estimated income effect of higher housing wealth … reinforced by wealth and earned income. … is virtually zero and that of financial assets wealth is positive, increasing the retirement probability. The …