measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …

This paper assesses the current state of evidence on how international trade shapes inequality and poverty through its … trade's contribution to inequality. The paper concludes with a survey of evidence on several policies that could mitigate …

Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element …, measures of inequality that ignore intra household allocations are both incomplete and misleading. We discuss determinants of …

mortality, with the Wilkinson hypothesis, that income inequality poses a risk to health. Individual health is negatively … coefficient of income inequality, as does actual aggregate mortality across US states. Individual data from the National … states, but actually fails to account for interstate correlation between mortality and income inequality. Further analysis of …

It is sometimes argued that poorer people choose to work less, implying less welfare inequality than suggested by … measures of inequality (in outcomes or opportunities) do not, however, measure incomes consistently with personal choices of … single American adults suggest that adjusting for effort imposing common preferences attenuates inequality, although the …

We study trends in income inequality across U.S. states and counties 1960-2019 using a mix of administrative and survey … the late 1970s. In contrast, bottom income quantiles and poverty rates have converged across areas in recent decades …

Sweden has a remarkable record in reducing inequality and virtually eliminating poverty. This paper shows that: 1 …) Sweden achieved its egalitarian income distribution and eliminated poverty largely because of its system of earnings and …

matched March CPS surveys, focusing on the effectiveness of minimum wages in reducing poverty. The results show that over a … one-to-two year period, minimum wages increase both the probability that poor families escape poverty and the probability … that previously non-poor families fall into poverty. The estimated increase in the number of non-poor families that fall …

This paper investigates monetary policy's influence on poverty and inequality in both the short run and the long run …

at which households come out of poverty affects their asset purchase decisions. We provide empirical support for these …