We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in … extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

in Chile. Using eight rounds of household surveys, we find that adolescents who were born to teen mothers, those that …

opportunities to engage in risky sexual behaviors. Using Chile's socio-economic household surveys and administrative data from the …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …

their initial conditions in terms of poverty and inequality levels. This paper presents a framework to quantify how much … initial conditions affect poverty reduction, given a level of "effort" (growth). The framework used in the analysis allows for … the growth elasticity of poverty to vary according to changes in the income distribution along the dynamic path of growth …

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries … analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates of the poverty reduction impact are presented in a normalized and un …

In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become … ineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …