The aim of the paper is to translate into a monetary amount the benefits received by the provision of health related public services in Italy, analyze their incidence and relevance and study their implications on the distribution of income amoung individuals. Beyond the traditional...

We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. Our aim is to capture the importance of persistence in a state of poverty and we characterize a corresponding individual intertemporal poverty measure. Our first axiom requires that intertemporal poverty is identical...