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Working Paper 2016-413 Abstract This paper proposes a new empirical framework for poverty accounting. Using a large collection of household

Working Paper 2016-412 Abstract This paper examines the extent to which estimates of inequality convergence are sensitive to the choice

Working Paper 2016-411 Abstract This paper studies the contribution of individual education and occupation to individual opportunity Authors: Juan C.

Working Paper 2016-410 Abstract Children are generally at a higher risk of poverty than the population as a whole, although

Working Paper 2016-409 Abstract Two competing strands exist within the theoretical literature on vulnerability to poverty, each with its own

Working Paper 2016-408 Abstract The purpose of this article is to offer a non-technical selective survey for a general Authors:

Working Paper 2016-407 Abstract In this study, the standard Mincer earnings regression equation in the form of the lognormal (LN)

Working Paper 2016-406 Abstract We show that, when measuring inequality of opportunity with survey data, scholars incur two types of

Working Paper 2016-405 Abstract The existing literature on welfare decentralization has not produced a robust set of measures and properties,

Working Paper 2016-404 Abstract We propose the first class of relative bipolarisation measures which are both percentile-independent and rank-independent. These

Working Paper 2016-403 Abstract The sensitivity of the frequency of poverty to economic growth is one of the central issues