Exposure to childhood poverty increases the likelihood of adult poverty. However, past research offers conflicting … accounts of cross-national variation in the strength of the intergenerational persistence of poverty and the mechanisms through … which it is channeled. This study investigates differences in intergenerational poverty in the United States (U …

multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with …

This paper aims to study the mechanisms of the intergenerational transfer of poverty: it considers household poverty as … a risk factor for youth poverty. The study is based on a unique, nationally representative School-to-Work Transition …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …

, evidence on how these institutions shape poverty rates across developed economies remains surprisingly scarce. It would be a … mistake, though, to believe that the relationship between earnings inequalities and poverty is straightforward. Indeed …, whereas earnings inequalities are measured at the individual level, poverty is calculated at the household level using …