Using micro-data from household expenditure surveys, we document the evolution of consumption poverty in the United … poverty has not declined materially since the 1980s and even increased for the young. We then analyze which social and … economic factors help explain the extent of poverty in the U.S. using probit, tobit, and machine learning techniques. Our …

pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also show that the household formation responses draw some unemployed …

swamps remittances, this paper finds that remittances, which are a stable, private transfer, have a direct poverty mitigating … remittances, poverty and financial development. The paper posits that formalizing such flows can serve as an effective access …

like South Africa, health inequality by wealth in self-reported health measures appears to be nearly non-existent. We test … hierarchical ordered probit (HOPIT) modeling, we show that a significant and substantial health disadvantage of the poor emerges … after correction. We also address the question whether and how health inequality and reporting heterogeneity are confounded …