high-growth entrepreneurs. Our respondents together account for nearly $1 trillion in assets under management. Each …

Families in poverty face numerous barriers to establishing stable economic footing. This paper examines the effect of a …

The Poor People's Campaign (PPC) of 1968 was focused on highlighting, and ultimately reducing, poverty in the United …

alone, we document that social isolation, poverty, and health challenges are three of the leading correlates of depression …

dynamic model of consumption and labor supply. We emphasize two key results. First, a psychology-based theory of poverty traps … of financial stress. On the other hand, naifs dis-save, fall into a poverty trap, and incur high welfare losses. Second … inequality and fiscal multipliers …

We study how financial development affects economic development and wage inequality. We use a large expansion of … from 2000-2014. We find that higher financial development fosters firm growth, higher labor demand, and higher average … increase with workers' productivity, implying a substantial increase in wage inequality. The changes to inequality are …

and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …"While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, we study whether financial …

-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … achieved on time; (3) the growth spurt that began in 1995 decreased African income inequality instead of increasing it; (4 …The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …

knowledge. This simple idea can inform cross-country income differences, international trade patterns, poverty traps, and price …