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 …

-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution. …

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 …

Despite robust growth in real per capita GDP over the last three decades, the U.S. poverty rate has changed very little …. In an effort to better understand this disconnect, we document and quantify the relationship between poverty and four … different factors that may affect poverty and its evolution over time: labor market opportunities, family structure, anti-poverty …

(SIPP) to investigate the impact that child SSI enrollment has on household outcomes such as poverty, household earnings … reduction in the probability that a child lives in poverty of roughly 11 percentage points. Additional analyses suggest that …