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 …

positive effect on growth as well as education and health outcomes …

This paper focuses on the role of institutions in the fight against poverty and inequality. Our view of institutions … to the concepts of poverty, inequality and institutions are expounded on a priori reasoning, empirical analysis with LAC …-income poverty à la capability approach of Amartya Sen) allows a rich discussion of policy interventions. While both orientations as …

Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and … construct a measure of hunger exposure from official data on caloric rations set monthly by the occupying forces providing … regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure with measures of trust using data from a nationally …