This paper investigates monetary policy's influence on poverty and inequality in both the short run and the long run …

distributional problem is not inequality but poverty. The paper considers three sources of poverty and asks what if anything might be …The first part of this paper argues that income inequality is not a problem in need of remedy. The common practice of … interpreting a rise in the gini coefficient measure of inequality as a bad thing violates the Pareto principle and is equivalent to …

This paper examines poverty in the United States from 1960 through 2005. We investigate how poverty rates and poverty … different income and consumption measures of poverty, and consider explanations for the differences in trends. We document sharp … differences, particularly in recent years, between different income poverty measures, and between income and consumption poverty …

offset the cost of health care live in families with incomes twice the poverty line or more and, depending on how coverage is …

exertion and food intake -- and the underlying causes of obesity -- childhood and adult poverty, depression, and attitudes …

In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data … consumption. Measures of overall and sub-group poverty also sharply differ. In addition to examining broader populations and a …

childhood (family income and poverty measures, family characteristics including parental education, and child characteristics …