arXiv:2606. 07614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable measurement of income and consumption is essential for monitoring poverty and inequality in low- and middle-income countries, yet full household surveys are costly and difficult to implement regularly.
By Vanesa Jord\'a, Miguel Ni\~no-Zaraz\'ua
arXiv:2607. 05404v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frontier AI's labor-market effects matter to workers, firms, and policymakers, but current evidence generally comes from a handful of high-income economies.
By Arul Murugan, Tom\'as Aguirre, Abhishek Nagaraj, Rishi Bommasani
arXiv:2502. 06866v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The drastic changes in the global economy, geopolitical conditions, and disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted the cost of living and quality of life.
By Arun Kumar Selvaraj, Tanay Panat, Rohitash Chandra
arXiv:2605. 17086v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automation can displace or complement labour, but this need not be constant across economies.
By Prashant Garg, Tommaso Crosta, Jasmin Baier
arXiv:2608. 00815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The 15-minute city promotes access to everyday services within a short walk or bicycle ride, but its relationship with observed mobility remains difficult to quantify.
By Andr\'as J. Moln\'aar, Csaba I. Sidl\'o, Rita R\'onai, Domonkos R\'ozsay
arXiv:2608. 07871v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate, up-to-date income data at the sub-municipal scale is essential for social policy in middle-income countries, yet in Brazil it depends on a costly decennial census whose intercensal gap recently exceeded a decade.
By Adrienne C. Kinney, Anya Workman, Ademar Takeo Akabane, Jenna Barac, Paulo Fernando Braga Carvalho, Jeova Farias, Fernando Nascimento, Paulo Ricardo da Silva Oliveira
arXiv:2512. 04223v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modelling the complexity and diversity of human activity scheduling behaviour is inherently challenging.
By Fred Shone, Tim Hillel
arXiv:2606. 07093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The fertility trend in developing countries has experienced a significant decline in the last few decades; at the same time, the role of women in the workplace has improved.
By Thi Kim Ngan Nguyen
arXiv:2606. 15058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study examines whether machine learning (ML) models can outperform the naive random walk benchmark in forecasting the monthly USD/CAD exchange rate.
By Louis Agyekum, Edmund Fosu Agyemang, Obu-Amoah Ampomah, Kofi Acheampong, Emmanuel Boadi, Priscilla Yaa Amakye, Fafa Shalom Tchorly, Enock Adu Bonsu, Eric Nyarko
arXiv:2606. 09944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GDP per capita is the default lens through which governibng bodies track the economic prosperity and consequences of economic events , yet it is blind to two first-order determinants of lived prosperity: income/wealth distribution and inflation impact.
By Sivasathivel Kandasamy
arXiv:2607. 17024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Air pollution and climate-related stressors are increasingly important concerns for respiratory health, especially in settings with unequal environmental exposure and healthcare capacity.
By Maede Azani Hassan Abadi, Shouyi Wang
arXiv:2606. 29111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When firms deploy autonomous AI, they must decide how much work to leave to the system and how much to keep workers engaged.
By Simrita Singh, Naireet Ghosh, Tinglong Dai