Targeting is a core element of anti-poverty program design, with benefits typically targeted to those most "deprived … ML approaches, could reach divergent conclusions. We discuss implications for the design of real-world anti-poverty …

from the analysis. (i) Fiscal expansions led to higher growth rates and reduced negative trade-offs, e.g., pollution and … poor-health mortalities associated with economic growth. (ii) Fiscal adjustments led to a more inclusive economy, lowered … poverty headcounts, improved sanitation, and cleaner technology access. (iii) Fiscal expansions followed an increase in direct …

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 …

Advocates of minimum wage increases have long touted their potential to reduce poverty. This study assesses this claim ….17 percent increase in the probability of longer-run poverty among all persons. With 95% confidence, we can rule out long …-run poverty elasticities with respect to the minimum wage of less than -0.129, which includes central poverty elasticities …

Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD …

housing court to tenants with income at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty guideline. We find that tenants who gain …

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 …