, including welfare participation, labor market involvement, earnings, income and poverty, and family formation. While no single … family earnings. The result was a rise in total family income and a decline in poverty. The gains from the 1996 reforms were …

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 …

and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …

increase work and raise income (lower poverty), but cost somewhat more than alternative welfare programs. In particular … due to windfall beneficiaries makes these programs more effective at alleviating poverty and raising incomes. Evidence …

following the transfer and persist until year 10, consistent with the alleviation of a poverty trap. One main channel for …

(SIPP) to investigate the impact that child SSI enrollment has on household outcomes such as poverty, household earnings … reduction in the probability that a child lives in poverty of roughly 11 percentage points. Additional analyses suggest that …