In this paper we develop an approach to measuring inequality and poverty that recognizes the fact that individuals …

from community members, and an algorithmic approach using machine learning to predict poverty using mobile phone usage …

Most poverty calculations use income-based or consumption-based measures. We introduce a new, third measure of poverty … resources and to the poverty threshold to allow a proper comparison of liquid resources to liquidity-adjusted thresholds. We … also show that the expenditure impact of transfers on the poverty rate requires an adjustment for effects of transfers on …

We develop and implement what we believe is the first conceptually valid health-inclusive poverty measure (HIPM …)--a measure that includes health care or insurance in the poverty needs threshold and health insurance benefits in family … resources--and we discuss its limitations. Building on the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure, we construct a pilot …

The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of … value of the floor, allowing for transient effects and measurement errors in survey data. On using all suitable and … available surveys for the developing world over 1981-2011, the expected value of the floor is about half the $1.25 a day poverty …

poverty estimates based on the new Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) from 1967 to 2012. During this period, poverty as … officially measured has stagnated. However, the official poverty measure (OPM) does not account for the effect of near … increasingly important part of government anti-poverty policy. Applying the SPM, which does count such transfers, we find that …

Census's Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) nearly doubles the elderly poverty rate compared to the "Official" Poverty … a poverty measure's predictive validity and excluding assets exacerbates this bias, since assets fund MOOP …The SPM is based on a 1995 NAS report that recommended a health-exclusive poverty measure, despite considering it …

This paper considers the long-run patterns of poverty in the United States from the early 1960s to 2010. Our results … contradict previous studies that have argued that poverty has shown little improvement over time or that anti-poverty efforts … have been ineffective. We find that moving from traditional income-based measures of poverty to a consumption-based measure …

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 …