The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …

better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …

globalization of the world's labor markets. We find that when people can choose between wage work and managerial work, the output …

We examine the extent to which food insecurity questions and the standard poverty measure are correlated with various … related to the diets of children. In contrast, poverty predicts dietary outcomes among preschoolers. Among adults, both … poverty and food insecurity questions are good predictors of many dietary outcomes …

offset the cost of health care live in families with incomes twice the poverty line or more and, depending on how coverage is …

conditions. A one percentage point increase in unemployment is associated with an increase in the after-tax income poverty rate …We examine the relationship between the business cycle and poverty for the period from 1960 to 2008 using income data … relationship between macroeconomic conditions and poverty is of particular interest given recent changes in anti-poverty policies …

Many Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients do not find new jobs before exhausting their benefits, even when benefits … poverty rates rise substantially. Self-reported disability also rises following UI exhaustion. These patterns do not vary …