Earnings Capacity, Economic Status, and Poverty

Economic Dependency Ratios, Fertility, and Poverty Status

A multivariate regression analysis shows that per capita expenditure has a negative effect on fertility, but large changes in per capita expenditure are needed to generate a substantial impact on the expected number of children per woman. Also women’s educational attainment is estimated to decrease fertility, both in rural and urban areas, particularly after schooling reaches the secondary leve...

Economic Inequality and the Utilization of Earnings Capacity

Earnings Capacity

Whether or not a household is counted among the poor depends upon its annual money income. As a measure of economic status, however, annual money income has serious limitations. In this paper an alternative indicator of economic status, called earnings capacity, is developed. Earnings capacity is designed to measure the ability of a living unit to generate an income stream if it were to use its...

Section 1 : Poverty Poverty and economic growth

Reducing insecurity: The principal objective of income transfers? Tax treatment of families in modern industrial countries: The role of the NIT

Neighborhood Poverty During Childhood and Fertility, Education, and Earnings Outcomes

Neighborhood Poverty During Childhood and Fertility, Education, and Earnings Outcomes Previous studies attempting to estimate the relative importance of family, neighborhood, residential stability, and homeownership status characteristics of childhood environments on young adult outcomes have: (1) treated these variables as though they were independent, and (2) were limited in their ability to ...