This paper examines the effects of recent welfare reforms in the US and UK on the well-being of children in low-income … families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper … finds some commonalities but also some notable differences. Common to both countries is a sizable reduction in child poverty …

labor force participation or has any impact on local marriage and fertility patterns. While our results are consistent with …

Higher income is associated with greater well-being, but do income gains and losses impact on well-being differently … falls in income have a larger impact on well-being than equivalent income gains. The effect is not explained by the … diminishing returns to well-being of income. Our findings show that loss aversion applies to experienced losses, counteracting …

contributed to the change in the living arrangements has been the increase in the pension incomes. Although income was the most …

Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable and noted feature of Chinese society. The paper … social policies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined. The limitations of a social policy that … livelihood approach is analysed and its potential to reduce poverty and inequality are considered. …

decomposition suggests that changes in inequality are not explained by income or allocation effects across these groupings, but by … significant correlation and regression coefficients which suggest a link between inflation and inequality, while poverty appears …

parents' income while the Behrman/Taubman estimator regresses an S-period average of the child's resources on a T …-period average of the parents' income. The latter estimator is shown to be the arithmetic mean of the S slope estimates arising from …

exploit this fact to identify the impact of opening a rural bank on poverty and output. Our estimates suggest that the Indian … rural branch expansion program significantly lowered rural poverty, and increased non-agricultural output. …

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 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …