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Evaluating the Success of President Johnson's War on Poverty : Revisiting the Historical Record Using a Full-Income Poverty Measure
Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2020
We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844816
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Evaluating the Success of President Johnson's War on Poverty : Revisiting the Historical Record Using a Full-Income Poverty Measure
Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2019
To evaluate success in President Johnson's War on Poverty it is necessary to evaluate that success based on his … scientifically arbitrary but policy relevant terms of engagement. No existing poverty measure is capable of measuring its success. We … do so here by developing a Full-Income Poverty Measure (FPM) anchored to the Official Poverty Measure in 1963 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890530
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Evaluating the success of President Johnson's war on poverty : revisiting the historical record using a full-income poverty measure
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Corinth, Kevin; Elwell, James; … - 2019
We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149105
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The unequal impact of the COVID pandemic : theory and evidence on health and economic outcomes for different income groups
Aubert, Cécile; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2022
This paper studies how wealth and health inequalities have interacted with the Covid-19 epidemic in a way that has reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two papers and their theoretical and empirical results....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013273921
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Does the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affect the poor? : evidence from a six-country survey
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Toan Luu Duc Huynh; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, barely any evidence currently exists on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We provide the first study that offers new theoretical and empirical evidence on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237735
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Inequality and support for government responses to COVID-19
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Malesky, Edmund; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020
Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring these insights into the debates about comparative support for government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. We fill in this gap by analyzing rich survey data from six countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303668
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Inequality and support for government responses to COVID-19
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Malesky, Edmund; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020
Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring these insights into the debates about comparative support for government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. We fill in this gap by analyzing rich survey data from six countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305923
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COVID-19 pandemic and the health and well-being of vulnerable people in Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Minh Do - 2022
pandemic reduced household income, increased the poverty rate, and worsened wage equality. It increased the proportion of below …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013433464
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Does the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affect the poor? : evidence from a six-country survey
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Toan Luu Duc Huynh; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, much needs to be learnt on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We contribute new theoretical and empirical evidence on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on different income groups in a multi-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414149
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COVID-19 Pandemic and the Health and Well-being of Vulnerable People in Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Minh Do - 2022
pandemic reduced household income, increased the poverty rate, and worsened wage equality. It increased the proportion of below …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013417527