This volume of Research on Economic Inequality contains research on how we measure poverty, inequality and welfare and how these measurements contribute towards policies for social mobility. The volume contains eleven papers, some of which focus on the uneven impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on poverty and welfare.

Introduction; Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Chapter 1. Multilateral Wellbeing And Inequality Measurement With Ordered Categorical Data: Health, Consumption And The Ageing Process In China; Gordon Anderson and Rui Fu Chapter 2. Bayesian Inference For Parametric Growth Incidence Curves; Edwin Fourrier-Nicolaï and Michel Lubrano Chapter 3. Modeling Household Poverty Status Using Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys; Maria Grazia Pittau, Roberto Zelli, and Saida Ismailakhunova Chapter 4. On The Measurement Of Health Poverty In The Case Of Ordinal Variables:The Case Of 29 European Countries In 2009 And 2018; Pudarik Mukhopadhaya and Jacques Silber Chapter 5. Maximum Inequality: The Case Of Categorical Data; Frank A Cowell and Emmanuel Flachaire Chapter 6. Multidimensional Poverty And Inclusive Growth In India: An Analysis Using Growth Elasticities; Suman Seth and Sabina Alkire Chapter 7. On The Measurement Of Relative, Absolute And Intermediate Pro-Middle Class Growth; Jacques Silber and Osnat Peled Chapter 8. Poverty Traps And Affluence Shields: Modelling The Persistence Of Income Position In Chile; Joaquín Prieto-Suarez Chapter 9. Poverty In The COVID-19 Era: Real Time Data Analysis On Five European Countries; Giorgia Menta Chapter 10. Finances Of European Households Throughout The Pandemic; Romina Gambacorta, Alfonso Rosolia, and Francesca Zanichelli Chapter 11. The Covid-19 crisis and lockdown measures: A portrait from a slum in urban Argentina; Martin Jose Napal, Maria Emma Santos, and Gimena Ramos