In this paper, I explore in an overlapping generations framework, a mechanism motivating a neurobiological poverty trap …. Poverty causes stress and depression in individuals susceptible to depression. Poor and depressed individuals discount the … depression but also stress and poverty. I show that a successful one-time intervention has the power to permanently eliminate the …

Exposure to childhood poverty increases the likelihood of adult poverty. However, past research offers conflicting … accounts of cross-national variation in the strength of the intergenerational persistence of poverty and the mechanisms through … which it is channeled. This study investigates differences in intergenerational poverty in the United States (U …

since it impacts human capital transmission. When poor parents cannot afford to invest in health, poverty traps may arise as … whether households fall into the poverty trap. We demonstrate that high-quality schools ensure that successive generations …. We calibrate our model for Brazil and Chile and show that our model predicts that a poverty trap will arise in Brazil but …

foreign direct investment (FDI). This paper examines the impact of international remittances on poverty reduction using the … panel data of 10 Asian developing countries. In terms of the dependent variables, this paper sets three poverty indicators …: poverty headcount ratio, poverty gap ratio, and poverty severity ratio. Results show that international remittances have a …

This paper aims to develop a relational geographical interpretation of energy poverty in the post-socialist states of … Skopje. I argue that energy poverty is produced by the relationships among three sets of contingencies: the socio … may become imprisoned in particular types of socio-spatial arrangements that contribute to the emergence of poverty …

This ground-breaking study on the measurement of poverty shows how policy in this field has taken a wrong turn with … disastrous results.In recent years, poverty has generally been understood in ‘relative' terms. That is, people are regarded as … poor if they earn less than some benchmark relative to average earnings. One perverse result of such relative poverty …