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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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Targeting is a core element of anti-poverty program design, with benefits typically targeted to those most "deprived … ML approaches, could reach divergent conclusions. We discuss implications for the design of real-world anti-poverty …
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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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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 …
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We document how an anti-poverty program improves economic and subjective wellbeing, and self-sufficiency. Familias en …
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