The link between happiness and overall inequality is best studied using an index that incorporates different aspects of … inequality, and is measured consistently in different countries. One such index is the degree to which happiness itself varies …

World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 … of the global poverty count in 2006 are much smaller than found by other researchers. We also find similar reductions in …

We review the empirical evidence on the relationship between Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty based on the … measurement and identification difficulties, and despite conflicting evidence on some issues, empirical work based on country case …

compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen …, the Theil index and the coefficient of variation. All indexes show a reduction in global income inequality between 1980 …

quality change) in the construction of price indices and, by extension, in the measurement of economic performance. The … staggering 55% per year (on average) over the first decade of the technology. By contrast, an hedonic-based index captures just a … small fraction of the decline, and a simple (unadjusted) price index shows a substantial price increase over the same period …

difficult, involving two types of problems. Commonly used indices, such as the Consumer Price Index (CPI), contain both …

widely used techniques: (a) index numbers, (b) data envelopment analysis, and three parametric methods, (c) instrumental …

living. This paper develops a framework for studying measurement problems in the consumer price index and systematically …A number of analysts have claimed recently that the consumer price index overstates the annual increase in the cost of … show how better to measure medical care prices, the paper presents a prototypical price index for cataract surgery. This …