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Fryer, Roland G.; Katz, Lawrence F. - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 232-37

This paper reviews the evidence on the efficacy of neighborhood and school interventions in improving the long-run outcomes of children growing up in poor families. We focus on studies exploiting exogenous sources of variation in neighborhoods and schools and which examine at least medium-term...

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Urban-Biased Policies and Rising Income Inequality in China

Yang, Dennis Tao - In: American Economic Review 89 (1999) 2, pp. 306-310

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Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India

Field, Erica; Pande, Rohini; Papp, John; Rigol, Natalia - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 6, pp. 2196-2226

microfinance on microenterprise growth and household poverty. …

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Children's Resources in Collective Households: Identification, Estimation, and an Application to Child Poverty in Malawi

Dunbar, Geoffrey R.; Lewbel, Arthur; Pendakur, Krishna - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 1, pp. 438-71

devoted to wives and children vary by family size and structure, and we find that standard poverty indices understate the … incidence of child poverty. (JEL I31, I32, J12, J13, O12, O15) …

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China's Lagging Poor Areas

Jalan, Jyotsna; Ravallion, Martin - In: American Economic Review 89 (1999) 2, pp. 301-305

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Immigration and Poverty in the United States

Raphael, Steven; Smolensky, Eugene - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 2, pp. 41-44

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Aid under Fire: Development Projects and Civil Conflict

Crost, Benjamin; Felter, Joseph; Johnston, Patrick - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 6, pp. 1833-56

discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary poverty threshold used to assign eligibility for the program. We find that barely …

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SSI for Disabled Immigrants: Why Do Ethnic Networks Matter?

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 462-66

Immigrants residing among many coethnics are especially likely to receive SSI for a disability when they belong to high SSI take-up immigrant groups. After showing that this relationship cannot be fully explained by differences in health, we consider the likely sources of these network effects...

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The Poverty Gap in School Spending Following the Introduction of Title I

Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Reber, Sarah - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 423-27

states in the short- to medium-run. However, the program was small relative to then-existing poverty gaps in school spending …

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Price Indexes, Inequality, and the Measurement of World Poverty

Deaton, Angus - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 1, pp. 5-34

I discuss the measurement of world poverty and inequality, with particular attention to the role of purchasing power … the ICP, and this reduced the global poverty line relative to the US dollar. The recent large increase of nearly half a … billion poor people came from an inappropriate updating of the global poverty line, not from the ICP revisions. Even so, PPP …

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