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Counting poverty orderings and deprivation curves

Casilda Lasso de la Vega

Estimating income poverty and inequality from the Gallup World Poll. The case of Latin America and the Caribbean

Leonardo Gasparini and Pablo Gluzmann

Improving the Supplemental Poverty Measure: Two proposals

John A. Bishop, Jonathan Lee and Lester A. Zeager

Welfare, inequality and financial consequences of a multi-pillar pension system. A reform in Peru

Javier Olivera

Measuring poverty using both income and wealth: A cross-country comparison between the U.S. and Spain

Francisco Azpitarte

Inequality of opportunity and growth

Gustavo Marrero and Juan Rodríguez

Happiness, deprivation and the alter ego

Paolo Verme

On the measurement of long-term income inequality and income mobility

Rolf Aaberge and Magne Mogstad

Accounting for family background when designing optimal income taxes: A microeconometric simulation analysis

Rolf Aaberge and Ugo Colombino

Measuring long-term inequality of opportunity

Rolf Aaberge, Magne Mogstad and Vito Peragine

Transport consumption inequalities and redistributive effects of taxes: A comparison of France, Denmark and Cyprus

Akli Berri, Stéphanie Vincent Lyk-Jensen, Ismir Mulalic and Theodoros Zachariadis

A class of poverty measures induced by the dual decomposition of aggregation functions

José Luis García-Lapresta, Casilda Lasso de la Vega, Ricardo Alberto Marques Pereira and Ana Marta Urrutia

Measuring inequality of opportunity with imperfect data: The case of Turkey

Francisco Ferreira, Jérémie Gignoux and Meltem Aran

Tracking can be more equitable than mixing: Peer effects and college attendance

Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo

Robust inequality comparisons

Rolf Aaberge and Magne Mogstad

Switching from convergence to divergence in the European Union: A case study

Grigoris Zarotiadis and Aristea Gkagka

Occupational segregation of immigrant women in Spain

Coral del Rio Otero and Olga Alonso-Villar

Does regional cost-of-living reshuffle Italian income distribution?

Riccardo Massari, Maria Grazia Pittau and Roberto Zelli

Occupational segregation measures: A role for status

Coral del Rio Otero and Olga Alonso-Villar

Economic well-being in Italy: The role of income insecurity and intergenerational inequality

Gabriella Berloffa and Francesca Modena

Measuring poverty accounting for time

Carlos Gradín, Coral del Rio Otero and Olga Cantó

Generalizing the S-Gini family: Some properties

Francisco Goerlich Gisbert, Casilda Lasso de la Vega and Ana Urrutia

Popular support for egalitarian social welfare

Rafael Salas and Juan Rodríguez

Inequality of opportunity in Europe: Economic and policy facts

Gustavo Marrero and Juan Rodríguez

The controversial effects of microfinance on child schooling: A retrospective approach

Leonardo Becchetti and Pierluigi Conzo

Fair and unfair income inequalities in Europe

Daniele Checchi, Vito Peragine and Laura Serlenga

Fairness in education: The Italian university before and after the reform

Paolo Brunori, Vito Peragine and Laura Serlenga

The poverty reduction capacity of private and public transfers in transition

Paolo Verme

Why has happiness inequality increased? Suggestions for promoting social cohesion

Leonardo Becchetti, Riccardo Massari and Paolo Naticchioni

Life satisfaction and income inequality

Paolo Verme

Race and income distribution: Evidence from the US, Brazil and South Africa

Carlos Gradín

The extent of occupational segregation in the US: Differences by race, ethnicity, and gender

Olga Alonso-Villar, Coral del Rio Otero and Carlos Gradín

Global poverty estimates: Present and future

Shatakshee Dhongde and Camelia Minoiu

Measures of poverty and inequality in the countries and regions of EU

Nicholas T. Longford, Maria Grazia Pittau, Roberto Zelli and Riccardo Massari

Distributions in motion: Economic growth, inequality, and poverty dynamics

Francisco Ferreira

Tax progression: International and intertemporal comparisons using LIS data

Kirill Pogorelskiy, Christian Seidl and Stefan Traub

Conditional occupational segregation of minorities in the U.S

Carlos Gradín

Evaluating welfare reform under program heterogeneity and alternative measures of success

Luis Ayala and Magdalena Rodríguez

Redistributive effects in a dual income tax system

Arnaldur Kristjánsson

An intra-group variance based polarization measure

Federico Palacios-González and Rosa García-Fernández

Beyond the Joneses: Inter-country income comparisons and happiness

Leonardo Becchetti, Stefano Castriota and Elena Giachin

Occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the US: Differences across states

Carlos Gradín, Coral del Rio Otero and Olga Alonso-Villar

Polarization, growth and social policy. The case of Israel, 1997 to 2008

Rosa García-Fernández, Daniel Gottlieb and Federico Palacios-González

Is there a metropolitan bias? The inverse relationship between poverty and city size in selected developing countries

Céline Ferré, Francisco Ferreira and Peter Lanjouw

Capturing the distribution sensitivity among the poor in a multidimensional framework. A new proposal

Casilda Lasso de la Vega, Ana Urrutia and Amaia de Sarachu

Tax-benefit incidence of value added tax on food and medicine to fund progressive social expenditure

Jaime Acosta-Margain

Composition of families and subjective economic well-being: An application to Italian context

Maria Francesca Cracolici, Francesca Giambona and Miranda Cuffaro

On the link between the coefficient of determination and polarization

Federico Palacios-González and Rosa María García-Fernández

Violence and social capital: Evidence of a microeconomic vicious circle

Leonardo Becchetti, Pierluigi Conzo and Alessandro Romeo

The distribution of employees’ labour earnings in the European Union: Data, concepts and first results

Andrea Brandolini, Alfonso Rosolia and Roberto Torrini