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 …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … poverty. We use panel data on almost 45,800 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2011 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility in and out of poverty. …

uses recent advances in sequential stochastic dominance techniques to show how to test for the robustness of poverty and … suggest that migrants do better than non-migrants for poverty, but worse for housing quality, none of the two group is found …

poverty which are robust to the assumptions made about the economies of scale within households, the techniques could be … fuel poverty among households with and without access to electricity, and we assess whether access to electricity for those … who do not have access currently would eliminate the observed difference in fuel poverty between the two groups of …

slightly negative or weakly positive but generate reductions in poverty at the national level and for rural households. The pro …

account the national goal of poverty reduction. The net social impact of exoneration depends on the economic structure of the …

to analyze the impact of the privatization of the water utilities in Senegal on poverty and inequality and we also … macro and sectoral variables and attempt to measure the impact on poverty and inequality of different groups of households …