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 …

for measuring national development. This is in large part due to its multidimensional nature, as it incorporates not only …The United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) is arguably the most widely used alternative to gross domestic product … Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme (N=191 countries) has limited its use at the local level …

poverty with respect to changes in the mean of the distribution of income, thus analytically linking the poverty measures to … key macroeconomic aggregates. Numerous insights are found in Kakwani's elasticities. However, the literature on poverty … and growth since then has revealed that the impacts of economic growth on poverty, as observed in practice, can be …

This paper examines the intergenerational effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on poverty and public … assistance in adulthood (WIC and other public assistance) and reduces the likelihood of being in poverty (<100% of poverty) or … near poor (<200% of poverty) by about 7 percentage points. These findings build on a growing literature that considers the …

How do aspirations influence investment decisions for people living in poverty? Does this change as peoples economic … similar effects to cash alone, potentially because cash raises aspirations. Thus, helping people living in poverty set higher …

A new wave of social service programs aims to build a pathway out of poverty by helping clients define their own goals …

I discuss recent books offering differing explanations for persistent U.S. poverty. Desmond (2023) argues that aid to …

distribution has become particularly important in recent decades. We reconfirm the findings of the literature that global poverty …

We evaluate the aggregate, distributional and welfare consequences of alternative government education policies to … policy reforms we show that the "free college" and the "better schools" reform generate significant welfare gains, which take …