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This week, we will start the crash course on Welfare, Inequality and Poverty. I will upload the slides soon. Reference for the course are the following,Atkinson Measuring top incomes: Methodological issuesis Atkinson &#38; Morelly Chartbook of economic inequalityBurricand, Houdré &#38; Seguin Les niveaux de vie en 2010Amiel &#38; Cowell Thinking about InequalityCowell Measurement of inequalityCowell Measuring InequalityCowell &#38; Flachaire Statistical methods for distributional analysisDuclos, &#38; Abdelkrim  Poverty and Equity: Measurement, Policy and Estimation with DAD.Foster An Axiomatic Characterization of the Theil Measure of Income InequalityHaughton &#38; Khandker Handbook on Poverty and InequalityHoudré, Missègue  &#38; Seguin Inégalités de niveau de vie et pauvretéKahneman, Krueger, Schkade, Schwarz &#38; Stone Would you be happier if you were richer? A focusing illusionLewis &#38; Ulph Poverty, Inequality and WelfarePiketty Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyRavaillon Issues in Measuring and Modelling PovertySen From Income Inequality to Economic InequalitySen Inequality ReexaminedSee also Emmanuel Flachaire's ECON-473 webpage, as well as Michel Lubrano's notes. In the introductionary course, I will also mention Le Monde, 2012 (on poverty), with the pdf. An interesting video is based on Norton &#38; Ariely, 2011