Prelims

Research on Economic Inequality: Poverty, Inequality and Shocks

ISBN: 978-1-80071-558-5, eISBN: 978-1-80071-557-8

ISSN: 1049-2585

Publication date: 2 December 2021

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(2021), "Prelims", Bandyopadhyay, S. (Ed.) Research on Economic Inequality: Poverty, Inequality and Shocks (Research on Economic Inequality, Vol. 29), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-vii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1049-258520210000029013

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Research on Economic Inequality

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RESEARCH ON ECONOMIC INEQUALITY, VOLUME 29

RESEARCH ON ECONOMIC INEQUALITY: POVERTY, INEQUALITY AND SHOCKS

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SANGHAMITRA BANDYOPADHYAY

Queen Mary University of London, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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List of Contributors	vii
Introduction
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay	1
Chapter 1. Multilateral Wellbeing and Inequality Measurement with Ordered Categorical Data: Health, Consumption and the Aging Process in China
Gordon Anderson and Rui Fu	5
Chapter 2. Bayesian Inference for Parametric Growth Incidence Curves
Edwin Fourrier-Nicolaï and Michel Lubrano	31
Chapter 3. Modeling Household Poverty Status Using Repeated Cross-sectional Surveys
Maria Grazia Pittau, Roberto Zelli and Saida Ismailakhunova	57
Chapter 4. On the Measurement of Health Poverty in the Case of Ordinal Variables: The Case of 29 European Countries in 2009 and 2018
Pundarik Mukhopadhaya and Jacques Silber	77
Chapter 5. Maximum Inequality: The Case of Categorical Data
Frank A. Cowell and Emmanuel Flachaire	95
Chapter 6. Multidimensional Poverty and Inclusive Growth in India: An Analysis Using Growth Elasticities and Semi-elasticities
Suman Seth and Sabina Alkire	105
Chapter 7. On the Measurement of Relative, Absolute and Intermediate Pro-middle Class Growth
Osnat Peled and Jacques Silber	139
Chapter 8. Poverty Traps and Affluence Shields: Modeling the Persistence of Income Position in Chile
Joaquín Prieto	169
Chapter 9. Poverty in the COVID-19 Era: Real-time Data Analysis on Five European Countries
Giorgia Menta	209
Chapter 10. The Finances of European Households Throughout the Pandemic
Romina Gambacorta, Alfonso Rosolia and Francesca Zanichelli	249
Chapter 11. The Covid-19 Crisis and Lockdown Measures: A Portrait from a Slum in Urban Argentina
Maria Emma Santos, Martin José Napal and Gimena Ramos	269
Index	297

List of Contributors

Sabina Alkire	University of Oxford, UK
Gordon Anderson	University of Toronto, Canada
Frank A. Cowell	London School of Economics, UK
Emmanuel Flachaire	Aix-Marseille University, France
Edwin Fourrier-Nicolaï	Aix Marseille University, France and Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, France
Rui Fu	University of Toronto, Canada
Romina Gambacorta	Bank of Italy, Italy
Saida Ismailakhunova	World Bank Group, USA
Michel Lubrano	Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, China and Aix Marseille University, France
Giorgia Menta	University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Pundarik Mukhopadhaya	Macquarie University, Australia
Martin José Napal	Universidad Salesiana and Municipalidad de Bahia Blanca, Bahia Blanca, Argentina.
Osnat Peled	Bank of Israel, Israel
Maria Grazia Pittau	Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Joaquín Prieto	London School of Economics Science, UK
Gimena Ramos	IIESS, UNS-CONICET and Depto. Economia, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina.
Alfonso Rosolia	Bank of Italy, Italy
Maria Emma Santos	IIESS, UNS-CONICET, Depto. Economia, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina and OPHI, University of Oxford, UK.
Suman Seth	University of Leeds, UK
Jacques Silber	Bar-Ilan University, Israel; LISER, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg and Tuscan Interuniversity Centre, Italy
Francesca Zanichelli	Bank of Italy, Italy
Roberto Zelli	Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Book Chapters

Prelims

Introduction

Chapter 1: Multilateral Wellbeing and Inequality Measurement with Ordered Categorical Data: Health, Consumption and the Aging Process in China

Chapter 2: Bayesian Inference for Parametric Growth Incidence Curves

Chapter 3: Modeling Household Poverty Status Using Repeated Cross-sectional Surveys

Chapter 4: On the Measurement of Health Poverty in the Case of Ordinal Variables: The Case of 29 European Countries in 2009 and 2018

Chapter 5: Maximum Inequality: The Case of Categorical Data

Chapter 6: Multidimensional Poverty and Inclusive Growth in India: An Analysis Using Growth Elasticities and Semi-elasticities

Chapter 7: On the Measurement of Relative, Absolute and Intermediate Pro-middle Class Growth

Chapter 8: Poverty Traps and Affluence Shields: Modeling the Persistence of Income Position in Chile

Chapter 9: Poverty in the COVID-19 Era: Real-time Data Analysis on Five European Countries

Chapter 10: The Finances of European Households Throughout the Pandemic

Chapter 11: The Covid-19 Crisis and Lockdown Measures: A Portrait from a Slum in Urban Argentina

Index