results suggest that using Diary data to assess inequality trends and other distributional outcomes is likely to lead to …

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 …

Recent years have witnessed increased interest in issues of inequality and mobility in the labor market. Using data … from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-Economic Panel, we compare the labor earnings mobility of …

Census's Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) nearly doubles the elderly poverty rate compared to the "Official" Poverty … a poverty measure's predictive validity and excluding assets exacerbates this bias, since assets fund MOOP. The SPM is … based on a 1995 NAS report that recommended a health-exclusive poverty measure, despite considering it, conceptually, a …

Following the death of Mao in 1976, abandonment of collective farming lifted millions from poverty and heralded …

The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment offered randomly selected families living in high-poverty housing projects … housing vouchers to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods. We present new evidence on the impacts of MTO on children's long …-term outcomes using administrative data from tax returns. We find that moving to a lower-poverty neighborhood significantly improves …

In what is probably the largest cash transfer program in the world today China’s Dibao program aims to fill all poverty … gaps. In theory, the program creates a poverty trap, with 100% benefit withdrawal rate (BWR). But is that what we see in …, and is also lower than the rate implied by optimal income tax models for poverty reduction. The paper discusses likely …