concerning the history of charity, philanthropy and poverty in nineteenth century Ireland and focuses on the post-Famine period …

, which was a part of the poor law package of legislation that attempted to solve the poverty problem. The Statute's primary …

federal government makes to alleviate poverty. In general, they overestimate the extent of poverty relief undertaken by … government. Given that poverty relief programs are a public good and likely underprovided, overestimation of the level of income … this misperception does affect giving to poverty-relief charities. We report a real-donation experiment investigating links …

include: relief of the poor was a local government responsibility; poverty was treated not as an economic problem, but as an …