to school-leaving laws / Philip Oreopoulos -- Health and healthy behaviors : mental health in childhood and human capital … and Phillip B. Levine -- Contextual influences : parental income shocks and outcomes of disadvantaged youth in the United …

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty … measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …

Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we compare the adult outcomes of cohorts who were differentially exposed to policy … individually increased educational attainment and earnings, and reduced the likelihood of both poverty and incarceration in … followed by sustained educational investments over time can effectively break the cycle of poverty …

In a rare example of an explicit national goal for income distribution besides reducing poverty, China's leadership has … recently committed to expanding the middle-income share--moving to a less polarized "olive-shaped" distribution. Recognizing … the potential trade-offs, the paper asks whether China's experience indicates that income-polarization was a by-product of …

most ambitious social experiments to alleviate poverty of our time. We provide the first empirical test of the causal …

's effects on city-level measures of income, property values, employment and poverty rates, and population. The estimated effects … on income, property values, and population are positive and economically significant. They are not driven by changes in … demographic composition. Estimated effects on poverty reduction and employment are positive but imprecise. The results are …

Introduced as part of the War on Poverty, Community Health Centers (CHCs) deliver primary care to underserved … health using the rollout of CHCs and a flexible event study framework with Vital Statistics natality data. Our results show … residence. These improvements in infant health can be explained by increased access to early prenatal care and reductions in …

(1 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3 SD), and health (0.2 SD). These effects grow for the first seven years … following the transfer and persist until year 10, consistent with the alleviation of a poverty trap. One main channel for …

This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food … conclude that the sizeable increase in income from Food Stamp benefits improved birth outcomes for both whites and African …