Homelessness is arguably the most extreme hardship associated with poverty in the United States, yet people … experiencing homelessness are excluded from official poverty statistics and much of the extreme poverty literature. This paper … population, including the first national estimates of income, employment, and safety net participation based on administrative …

using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …

Philippines, derived from spatial variation in exposure to exchange rate shocks. The initial shock to migrant income is magnified …

Productive asset grants have become an important tool in efforts to push the very poor out of poverty, but they require … labor to convert the asset into income. Using a clustered randomized trial, we work with the Government of the Philippines … household members. Adolescent labor is the most available labor, and we observe increases in employment among adolescents not …

test that prediction in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Philippines, using survey data on unemployment and two newly …

We examine three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the Philippines in the early 20th …