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 …

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 …

that schooling. The theory developed here explains the forsaken schooling phenomenon, which shows that low-skilled and …

citizens. Each living group in a nation is identified as a Household. Poverty is the inability to buy the Basic Needs by a … and eradicate the Poor category. This is a direct bottom level approach to eradicate poverty. Induction of savings through …

We propose a new methodology to revise the international poverty line (IPL) after Ravallion et al. (2009) using the … same database, but augmented with new variables to take into account social inclusion in the definition of poverty along …

multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with …