This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected for the change in household size. -- migration ; income ; poverty ; underestimation ; reference groups …"This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First …

The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these …. To that end, we use data from the eight waves of the Spanish section of the European Community Household Panel (1994 … reduce individual deprivation. Our results suggest that the more unequal the income distribution is in a group, the less …

comparable measure of permanent income as a basis for defining and measuring chronic poverty. This approach accounts for the fact …As an alternative to the conventional methods for measuring chronic poverty, this paper proposes an interpersonal … that individuals regularly undertake inter-period income transfers. Moreover, the approach allows for individual …

. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …

poverty. Many households above the poverty line are food insecure; many below are not. We investigate a lack of financial … literacy as a potential salient determinant of household-level food security. In light of the recent financial crisis and the …

conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply …Employment helps reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a …

This paper identifies gaps in availability, access, and quality of household budget surveys in the Middle East and … North Africa region used to measure monetary poverty and evaluates ways to fill these information gaps. Despite improving … public access to household budget surveys, the availability and timeliness of welfare data in the Middle East and North …

We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … intergenerational transmission of poverty. …

RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a … effect of the price shock on household welfare through consumption and wage incomes. Poor rural households suffer significant … are greater among urban households. However, more poor people in India live in villages, so rural poverty impacts are …

-age male workers. As such, increases in the minimum wage are associated with increases in household consumption per capita in …