Asset-Based Measurement of Poverty

By A. Brandolini, Silvia Magri, Timothy M. Smeeding. 2010

416 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Poverty is generally defined as income or expenditure insufficiency, but the economic condition of a household also depends on its real and financial asset holdings. This paper investigates measures of poverty that rely on indicators of household net worth. We review and assess two main approaches followed in the literature: income-net worth measures and asset-poverty. We provide fresh cross-national evidence based on data from the Luxembourg Wealth Study.

Subfields: Accounting, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/06c441b698b42903e434afdf0d556a3d04bc3297

Citations in the corpus

• WEALTH INEQUALITY: A SURVEY (2015, neutral): “3On the important related issue of asset-based poverty see Azpitarte (2011), Fisher and Weber (2004), Brandolini et al. (2010), Carter and Barrett (2006), Carney and Gale (2001), Caner and Wolff (2004), Haveman and Wolff (2004), Rank and Hirschl (2010). early 2011 in 15 Eurozone countries.”
• Multidimensional poverty and inequality (2014, neutral): “…line is often defined with reference to the income poverty line, as it is taken to be the amount of wealth necessary to maintain the socially defined minimum standard for a certain period for someone who has no other economic sources (e.g. Haveman and Wolff, 2004, and Brandolini et al., 2010).”