We derive an explicit formula of the Watts’ poverty index, in terms of parametersof bivariate lognormal distributions … prices and nominal living standards in poverty; interpret the e¤ects on povertyof changes in price distributions; estimate … poverty when only means and variancesof price indices and nominal living standards are known.Using data from peasants in …

Using parametric formulae under lognormality for a broad family of povertymeasures, we show that when inequality … measured by the Gini coeffcient isconstant, dening the poverty line as a fraction of a central tendency of theliving standard … distribution restricts the evolution of the poverty measuresto be stable... …

: generateadditional properties for poverty indices; relate the latters to the incidenceof poverty and to an inequality index; enrich the … investigate properties of poverty indices.The method we propose is to exploit credible distributional assumptions to … sensibility analysis of povertyindices; derive new families of relative poverty lines...derived. …

We derive an explicit formula of the Watts’ poverty index, in terms of parametersof bivariate lognormal distributions … prices and nominal living standards in poverty; interpret the e¤ects on povertyof changes in price distributions; estimate … poverty when only means and variancesof price indices and nominal living standards are known.Using data from peasants in …

public good is pure, any given, positive level of income inequality can beshown to be socially excessive by suitably … redistribution from the rich tothe poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo... …

inequality-averseas umpires. A within{subjects analysis shows that about one half became lessinequality-averse, one quarter … became more inequality-averse and one quarterremained unchanged as umpires. In the risk scenario, subjects become onaverage … more inequality-averse in their umpire roles. A within-subjects analysisshows that about half became more inequality …