to poorest. When poverty is defined using per-capita expenditure and the common PPP$2 per day threshold, we find that … poverty: the results of community-based methods are more correlated with how individual community members rank each other and …

Many studies examine the anti-poverty effects of social insurance and means-tested transfers, relying solely on survey … Program Participation data. Using the linked data, we find that Social Security cuts the poverty rate by a third - more than … effective. All programs except for the EITC sharply reduce deep poverty (below 50% of the poverty line), while the impact of the …

Progressively targeted cash transfers remain the dominant policy response to chronic poverty in developing countries …. But are there alternative social protection policies that might have larger poverty impacts over time for the same public … vulnerable, but non-poor households in the wake of negative shocks, can result in lower rates of poverty in the medium term than …

using the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and inequality statistics. We link administrative … income of poor households. Underreporting in the survey data also greatly understates the effects of anti-poverty programs … and changes our understanding of program targeting. Using the combined data rather than survey data alone, the poverty …

Targeting is a core element of anti-poverty program design, with benefits typically targeted to those most "deprived … ML approaches, could reach divergent conclusions. We discuss implications for the design of real-world anti-poverty …

. The results indicate large gains from tradeable assignments after first randomizing. The gains exceed those from poverty …

Conservation programs in low-income countries often have dual goals of protecting the environment and reducing poverty … pure transfers, and the extent of the anti-poverty benefits depends on whether the pure transfers are de facto targeted to …

-run effects of the EITC are to increase employment and to reduce poverty and public assistance, as long as we rely on national as … well as state variation in EITC policy. Second, tighter welfare time limits also reduce poverty and public assistance in … on poverty is more likely behavioral. It is harder to draw firm conclusions about minimum wages and welfare benefits …