social policy better reduces poverty than social policies targeted at the poor. This article revisits Korpi and Palme … average share of household income from welfare transfers), low-income targeting, and universalism - and poverty and … developed and developing countries. Consistent with Korpi and Palme, we show: a) poverty is negatively associated with the …

poverty. Using the Luxembourg Income Study, we conduct a multilevel analysis of working-aged adult poverty across 18 affluent … Western democracies. Our index of welfare generosity has a negative effect on poverty net of individual characteristics and … structural context. For each standard deviation increase in welfare generosity, the odds of poverty decline by a factor of 2 …