Overview
- Editors:
-
-
Camilo Dagum
-
Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche “P. Fortunati”, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
-
Guido Ferrari
-
Dipartimento di Statistica “G. Parenti”, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
- Thorough and innovative contribution to the construction of equivalence scales as an instrument for the assessment of tax fairness, income inequality, family consumption, poverty measurement, cost of raising children, and household welfare
- Each chapter presents a self-contained development of the subject matter and applies it to a case study
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Access this book
Other ways to access
Table of contents (12 papers)
-
-
-
- Eugenio Peluso, Alain Trannoy
Pages 11-27
-
- Gustavo De Santis, Mauro Maltagliati
Pages 29-53
-
- Antonino Di Pino, Massimo Mucciardi
Pages 55-74
-
-
- John Muellbauer, Justin van de Ven
Pages 85-106
-
- Pushkar Maitra, Ranjan Ray
Pages 107-127
-
- Carlos Arias, Vincenzo Atella, Raffaella Castagnini, Federico Perali
Pages 129-161
-
- Sara Borelli, Federico Perali
Pages 163-194
-
- Vincenzo Atella, Martina Menon, Federico Perali
Pages 195-220
-
- Camilo Dagum, Michele Costa
Pages 221-271
-
-
Back Matter
Pages 295-296
About this book
A group of scholars converging on a common and socially relevant economic theme of research, that of households' welfare and poverty, met several times in the last two years to discuss the research progress and the opportunity to bring to gether for publication the research so far accomplished. They shared a research project supported by a grant from the former Italian Ministero dell'Universita e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (MURST) now Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR): The Equiva lence Scales in the Measurement of Households' Welfare: Statistical, Economic and Demographic Analysis. The decisive meeting, an international seminar on the topics, was hosted by the University of Florence, siege of the national coordinator of this project. When one think of Florence, it is inevitable to think of the unfolding of Ren aissance, and reciprocally. th To the eyes of a traveller who had arrived to Florence in the 15 century, the city would have appeared as a sort of El Dorado, similarly to what would have occurred to the first conquerors of the South America's lands, so much astonishing were the richness of arts and the opulence of life. The flourishing of painting and sculpture had not equal all over the world and was reaching tops never made equal before. Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Donatello and later on Leonardo and Michelangelo, were the artistic and intellectual genius that enlightened beauty lovers princes.....
Editors and Affiliations
-
Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche “P. Fortunati”, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Camilo Dagum
-
Dipartimento di Statistica “G. Parenti”, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
Guido Ferrari