At the beginning of the 21st century, Bolivia presented improvements in the indicators of poverty and monetary …

This paper provides evidence on the causal relationship between education and poverty. I construct a novel database … large poverty-reducing effects of education among people aged 30 to 80. This holds true for both objective measures of … poverty (relative income poverty, lack of basic necessities, weak labor market attachment) and a subjective measure of poverty …

According to the Blacks' Diminished Return theory, the health effects of high socioeconomic status (SES) are … poverty. Aims: Using a nationally representative sample of American families with children, this study investigated racial … variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family's ability to scale poverty, defined as the household's income …

constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of constitutional language of the economic and social rights matter … important results. First, we do not find an association between constitutional rights generally framed and poverty. Second, we … do not find an association between economic and social rights framed as directive principles and poverty. Third, we do …

to further alleviate poverty and as a complement to the Social Protection Card (KPS). Drawing upon administrative data …

Evidence on the effectiveness of workfare as an anti-poverty program in developing countries is weak compared with the …

for this new measure is the current level of wellbeing of a household as opposed to another benchmark such as the poverty …) axiomatic measure of vulnerability to poverty. We apply a measure of both vulnerability to downside risk and to poverty to data … is highly non-linear. While moderately but not extremely poor households are relatively vulnerable to extreme poverty …