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Can Cash Transfers Help Households Escape an Inter-Generational Poverty Trap?
Araujo, Maria Caridad - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982529
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Waging War on Poverty : Historical Trends in Poverty Using the Supplemental Poverty Measure
Fox, Liana - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061460
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Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Better Measure Income : Implications for Poverty, Program Effectiveness and Holes in the Safety Net
Meyer, Bruce D. - 2015
using the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and inequality statistics. We link administrative … income of poor households. Underreporting in the survey data also greatly understates the effects of anti-poverty programs … and changes our understanding of program targeting. Using the combined data rather than survey data alone, the poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013166
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The Incentive Effects of Cash Transfers to the Poor
Aizer, anna_aizer@brown.edu - 2020
All redistributive and social insurance programs trade off the potential benefits of transfers with the disincentives these programs generate. We investigate this trade-off using newly collected lifetime data for 16,000 women who applied to the Mothers' Pension Program, the first cash transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828466
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The Poverty Reduction of Social Security and Means-Tested Transfers
Meyer, Bruce D. - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919877
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How Johnson Fought the War on Poverty : The Economics and Politics of Funding at the Office of Economic Opportunity
Bailey, Martha J. - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060098
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Assistance to the Poor in a Federal System
Brown, Charles; Oates, Wallace E. - 2021
This paper explores the roles of different levels of government in assisting the poor. Using a model with utility interdependence, the paper presents some theoretical results on how levels of poor relief vary with the extent of mobility of the poor under both centralized and decentralized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213096
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Social Protection Amidst Social Upheaval : Examining the Impact of a Multi-Faceted Program for Ultra-Poor Households in Yemen
Brune, Lasse; Karlan, Dean; Kurdi, Sikandra; Udry, … - 2022
Social protection programs are needed more than ever during periods of social upheaval, but are also likely to be even harder to implement successfully. Furthermore, social upheaval makes measuring the impact of such policies all the more difficult. We study the impact of a multi-faceted social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296769
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Child Poverty, the Great Recession, and the Social Safety Net in the United States
Bitler, Marianne - 2016
In this paper, we comprehensively examine the effects of the Great Recession on child poverty, with particular … panel data model and data for 2000 to 2014, we estimate the relationship between the business cycle and child poverty, and … that the safety net provides protection; that is, the cyclicality of after-tax-and-transfer child poverty is significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982513
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Wealthier, Happier and More Self-Sufficient : When Anti-Poverty Programs Improve Economic and Subjective Wellbeing at a Reduced Cost to Taxpayers
Galama, Titus J. - 2017
We document how an anti-poverty program improves economic and subjective wellbeing, and self-sufficiency. Familias en …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941962