Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version …, thus diminishing the impact on poverty. Some methodological changes perform better, with a poverty-quantile method … as well, or almost as well, in reducing poverty. However, even with a budget sufficient to eliminate poverty with full …

In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data … consumption. Measures of overall and sub-group poverty also sharply differ. In addition to examining broader populations and a …

According to economic theory, well-being or utility depends on consumption. However, at the household level, total … used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income … use data from the Health and Retirement Study to find income-based poverty rates which we compare with poverty rates as …

measurement error and under-reporting, and by comparing micro-data from standard surveys to administrative micro-data and … between consumption and well-being and its better measurement favors the use of consumption when setting benefits and …

wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies … welfare state. More generally, the paper develops a theory of collective beliefs and motivated cognitions, including those …