performance on a large number of tests. Second, we use a regression discontinuity design exploiting the fact that a “poverty index … completion rate of 75 percent. We conclude that any effect of cash transfers on the inter-generational transmission of poverty in …

Many studies examine the anti-poverty effects of social insurance and means-tested transfers, relying solely on survey … Program Participation data. Using the linked data, we find that Social Security cuts the poverty rate by a third – more than … effective. All programs except for the EITC sharply reduce deep poverty (below 50% of the poverty line), while the impact of the …

(majority) of “Bumiputera” (mainly Malays). Since then, Malaysia's official poverty measures indicate one of the fastest long …-term rates of poverty reduction in the world, due to both economic growth and falling inequality. Did ethnic inequality fall … since 1969 and was that a key factor in the country's success in reducing poverty and in managing inequality? New measures …

Scholars emphasize that poverty in Britain has risen sharply since the late 1970s. Meanwhile in the United States, both … official figures and traditional poverty scholars report sharp declines in poverty. We seek to provide a comparison of poverty …, or policy-account for the observed changes in poverty in the two nations and what role could policy play in reducing …

I estimate the fraction of widows that will be in poverty by projecting the economic status, as measured in 1979, of a … consumption-based measure of poverty status that, I believe, is more appropriate for the elderly than the usual income …-based measure. According to the projections, the fraction of widows in poverty should not increase substantially as the 1979 cohort …

at which households come out of poverty affects their asset purchase decisions. We provide empirical support for these … hypotheses by examining the causal impact of increases in household income on asset accumulation and energy use in the context of … from the household analysis to aggregate energy forecast models using country-level panel data. Our results suggest that …

. Schooling expenditures rise with the lottery, but total expenditures in the household decline relative to the control population …

directed funding in ways consistent with the War on Poverty's rhetoric of fighting poverty and racial discrimination: poorer … explain the strong backlash against the War on Poverty's programs …

poverty estimates based on the new Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) from 1967 to 2012. During this period, poverty as … officially measured has stagnated. However, the official poverty measure (OPM) does not account for the effect of near … increasingly important part of government anti-poverty policy. Applying the SPM, which does count such transfers, we find that …