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Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	75%

Selected Abstracts

Comparing the True Cost of Living Indices of Demographically Different Households

BULLETIN OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, Issue 1 2004
Panayiota Lyssiotou
D1 Abstract The comparison of true cost of living indices between demographically different households (relative equivalence scale) is argued to be sensitive to the way demographic characteristics enter demand analysis. In particular, parameters reflecting the cost of demographic characteristics at base prices, though themselves do not have welfare (equivalence scale) interpretation, can alter the benchmark from which demographically varying inflation effects are measured. The empirical analysis, based on a rank-3 demand system applied to UK individual household data, shows that the inflation adjustment of child benefits can vary with the way demographic costs at base period prices are specified. [source]

Equity-regarding poverty measures: differences in needs and the role of equivalence scales

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, Issue 1 2010
Udo Ebert
Abstract The paper investigates the definition of equity-regarding poverty measures when there are different household types in the population. It demonstrates the implications of a between-type regressive transfer principle for poverty measures, for the choice of poverty lines, and for the measurement of living standard. The role of equivalence scales, which are popular in empirical work on poverty measurement, is clarified. Ce mémoire examine la définition de mesures de pauvreté fondées sur l'équité quand existent différents types de ménages dans la population. On montre les implications d'un principe de transfert régressif entre types de ménages pour les mesures de pauvreté, pour la définition des seuils de pauvreté, et pour la mesure du niveau de vie. On clarifie le rôle des échelles d'équivalence qui sont d'un usage généralisé dans les travaux sur la mesure de la pauvreté. [source]

Annotation: Children's relationships with their nonresident fathers

THE JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY AND ALLIED DISCIPLINES, Issue 4 2004
Judy Dunn
Background:, The frequency of parental separation means that increasing numbers of children have fathers who live in different households from mother-and-child; the significance of contact and relationships between children and their nonresident fathers for children's adjustment is receiving growing attention. Lessons from this research are considered. Methods:, Recent meta-analyses and overviews of research, and key research projects, are discussed. Findings related to contact and relationship quality are the main focus of the annotation. Results:, Economic support from nonresident fathers is related to children's well-being, and continues to be a key factor. Findings on contact are more mixed, especially from early studies; the effect size of associations between contact and positive child outcome has increased in recent research. Quality of child,father relationships is consistently related to adjustment outcome. Authoritative parenting, involvement and feelings of closeness are of particular importance in relation to adjustment, and these links are related to the quality of mother,nonresident father relations, and the mother,child relationship. Age differences, patterns over time, and gender are discussed; the perspectives of fathers and the problems they face in maintaining authoritative relationships are considered. Conclusions:, The significance of child,nonresident father relationships for children's and fathers' well-being is clear and merits further research; fruitful new directions for such research, within the framework of other family relationships, are outlined. [source]