for the idea that Scottish households experienced particularly great variations in income, causing them to commit to … overcrowding. We provide evidence that Scottish workers generally spent their rent reduction entirely on food, rather than saving. …

positive average effects on employment, earnings, and income, and generally negative effects on poverty rates, although the …

This paper reviews research about the intergenerational transmission of poverty in industrialized countries. In order … to make our survey manageable, we restrict attention to studies that consider the relationship between parental poverty … (or ?income?) during childhood and laterlife outcomes; we do not explicitly consider the impact of other family background …

In this paper, we evaluate income distributions in four European countries (Austria, Italy, Spain and Hungary) using … consistent results, in terms of both inequality measures and poverty rates. To the extent that the results differ, we explore the …

industries high rent and overcrowding are more prevalent. Within cities, but not between cities, variations in infant mortality …

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the … world. The current benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates of monthly real consumption and income for every …

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the … world. The current benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates of monthly real consumption and income for every …

well-being associated with a marginal increase in income is larger for poorer than for richer populations. This hypothesis … that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher-income … group (majority population). Further, the correlation between income and emotional well-being does not differ between the …

analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and …We examine the consequences of underreporting of transfer programs in household survey data for several prototypical … understate the income of poor households, as conjectured in past work by one of the authors. Underreporting in the survey data …

relationship between income, household food expenditures, and household expenditures on imported rice. it is aimed at assessing how … Nigeria. It starts by describing the income distribution in the Nigerian states contained in the sample. It then analyses the … local prices of imported rice taking into consideration the simulated price changes effect on household welfare across …