Welfare Poverty Measurement

From Unidimensional to Multidimensional Inequality, Welfare and Poverty Measurement

In this handout we review results concerning representation of partial orders via stochastic orders and investigate their applications to some classes of stochastic dominance conditions applied in inequality, poverty and welfare measurement. The results obtained in an unidimensional framework are extended to multidimensional analysis. In particular we provide an overview of the main issues conc...

Does welfare reduce poverty?

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 made fundamental changes in the federal system of public assistance in the United States, and specifically limited the eligibility of immigrant households to receive many types of aid. Many states chose to protect their immigrant populations from the presumed adverse effects of welfare reform by offering state-funded as...

Measurement of Poverty and Poverty of Measurement

Reducing Welfare Dependency and Poverty

The purpose of this paper Is to Investigate empirically two Important questions concerning chi Id support enforcement~ Ftrst, what Is the Impact of receiving chi Id support on welfare dependency and poverty? Second, howeffective are current child support enfor,cement proced~res? The a~alysls utilizes data from the 1979 AFDC Recipient Characteristics Study and the March/Apr I J 1982 Current Popu...

Urban Poverty and Child Welfare

Titration of insulin dose in these patients requires serial insulin levels and or blood glucose levels. Obtaining serial insulin levels may often be difficult in a resource limited setting. As used in our patient, C-peptide levels could be used as a surrogate marker of insulin levels and could ease dose adjustment and titration during acute phases as well as during follow up. This could obviate...