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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …
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Introduction: what have we learned about the problems of and prospects for disadvantaged youth? / Jonathan Gruber -- Education : the behavioral consequences of pre-kindergarten participation for disadvantaged youth / David Figlio and Jeffrey Roth -- Is gaining access to selective elementary...
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political debate surrounding poverty. Policy changes included a radical shift in welfare policy, a sizable expansion in supports … plummeted, work rose dramatically among single parents, and poverty was reduced. At the same time, there are indications that …
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Scholars emphasize that poverty in Britain has risen sharply since the late 1970s. Meanwhile in the United States, both … official figures and traditional poverty scholars report sharp declines in poverty. We seek to provide a comparison of poverty …, or policy-account for the observed changes in poverty in the two nations and what role could policy play in reducing …
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We have used a unique longitudinal database that incorporates information from diverse administrative and research sources to examine the impact of the early stages of welfare reform on poor working families who do not receive cash assistance. Our data are for 2791 working poor families from...
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(majority) of "Bumiputera" (mainly Malays). Since then, Malaysia's official poverty measures indicate one of the fastest long …-term rates of poverty reduction in the world, due to both economic growth and falling inequality. Did ethnic inequality fall … since 1969 and was that a key factor in the country's success in reducing poverty and in managing inequality? New measures …
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This paper uses an RCT to estimate the impact of PROBEMS, a scholarship program in Mexico aimed at improving graduation rates and test scores among upper secondary school students from poor backgrounds. We find that, on average, the program has no impact either on graduation rates or on Math and...
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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 …
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Under the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), schools serving sufficiently high-poverty populations may enroll their …
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years to find these start-up grants acted more as a kick-start than a lift out of poverty. Grantees' investment leveled off …
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