exertion and food intake -- and the underlying causes of obesity -- childhood and adult poverty, depression, and attitudes …

-term rates of poverty reduction in the world, due to both economic growth and falling inequality. Did ethnic inequality fall … since 1969 and was that a key factor in the country's success in reducing poverty and in managing inequality? New measures … important as the overall rate of growth in household incomes. Despite past progress in reducing ethnic inequality, the …

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 …

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …

countries on poverty and average incomes in poor countries. We find no support in the cross-country analysis for the claim that … OECD polices worsen poverty in developing countries. To better understand what might drive these results, we turn to …

1991 on economic performance. We do not find persuasive the contention of many analysts that growth accelerated after the … resulted in a growth acceleration. We show that there is an accelerating rate of growth of GDP after the mid 1970s and it is … difficult to identify the mechanism by which the more pro-business policies of the government were translated to higher growth …