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Working Papers

2025

1. Elite incomes around the world: command over tradables, nontradables and labour
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library
   See also Journal Article Elite Incomes Around the World: Command over Tradables, Nontradables and Labour, The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer (2025) (2025)

2022

2. Elite incomes around the world: Command over tradables, non-tradables, and people
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)
3. Long-Run Trends and Confidence Intervals in the Cost of Basic Needs and Global Poverty: A ballpark approach
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany

2020

4. Global Absolute Poverty: The Evolution of its Measurement
   EconStor Preprints, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
5. The devil in the details: The core disadvantage of the International Poverty Line
   EconStor Preprints, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
6. Why PPP exchange rates should be avoided in global poverty estimates
   EconStor Preprints, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

2018

7. Scrapping PovcalNet's Distributions for Poverty Research
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)

2017

8. Netherlands beyond GDP: A Wellbeing Index
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)

2016

9. Global Absolute Poverty: Begin the Veil of Dollars
   Working Papers, Utrecht University, Centre for Global Economic History View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article Global Absolute Poverty: Behind the Veil of Dollars, Journal of Globalization and Development, De Gruyter (2016) View citations (21) (2016)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Development and inequality: A long‐run view
   Journal of Economic Surveys, 2025, 39, (2), 767-776
2. Elite Incomes Around the World: Command over Tradables, Nontradables and Labour
   The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2025, 23, (2), 457-481
   See also Working Paper Elite incomes around the world: command over tradables, nontradables and labour, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2025) (2025)
3. Global poverty: A Review of Measurement, Levels, and Trends in a Historical Perspective
   Journal of Economic Surveys, 2025, 39, (2), 706-766
4. Real wages around the world: Insights from linear programming and accounting for climate differences
   Economics & Human Biology, 2025, 59, (C)
5. Wealth-income ratios in a small, open economy: The Netherlands, 1854–2019
   European Economic Review, 2025, 178, (C) View citations (1)

2024

6. Capitalist reforms and extreme poverty in China: unprecedented progress or income deflation?
   New Political Economy, 2024, 29, (1), 1-21
7. Stress-testing the international poverty line and the official global poverty statistics
   Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2024, 11, (1), 1-12

2021

8. Global poverty: A first estimation of its uncertainty
   World Development Perspectives, 2021, 22, (C) View citations (5)
9. Long run trails of poverty, 1925–2010
   Empirical Economics, 2021, 61, (5), 2797-2825 View citations (2)
10. Purchasing power parities and the Dollar-A-Day approach: An unstable relationship
    Economics Letters, 2021, 206, (C) View citations (2)

2019

11. Climate and society in long‐term perspective: Opportunities and pitfalls in the use of historical datasets
    Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 2019, 10, (6) View citations (3)

2018

12. The Unbearable Errorlessness of Global Poverty Estimates
    The Economists' Voice, 2018, 15, (1), 7 View citations (1)

2016

13. Global Absolute Poverty: Behind the Veil of Dollars
    Journal of Globalization and Development, 2016, 7, (2), 28 View citations (21)
    See also Working Paper Global Absolute Poverty: Begin the Veil of Dollars, Working Papers (2016) View citations (3) (2016)