The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …

-receiving states and metropolitan areas. Then I quantify the consequences of these wage effects on the poverty rates of native families … "poor" families among U.S.-born individuals. I consider the decade 2000-2009 during which poverty rates increased … no effect of immigration on native poverty at the national level. At the local level, only considering the most extreme …

supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of the microdata allows us to estimate a general expression for the gains … large and significant welfare gains for the average household that are mainly driven by a reduction in the cost of living …

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 …

accelerated in recent years is not supported by the data. There was considerable feminization of poverty in the 1960s, but in the … 1970s the sex mix of poverty was relatively constant, and between 1979 and 1984 women's share decreased. The trend in … feminization of poverty and the principal reason why the trend was more adverse for blacks than whites …

and cervical cancer among uninsured women in the US: one that paid for cancer screenings with federal funds and one that … uninsured women. In contrast, funding for cancer detection significantly increased breast and cervical cancer screenings among … 40-64 year old uninsured women, with much smaller effects for insured women (who were not directly eligible). Moreover …