becomes less progressive. Indeed, when we use an "endowment" defined by potential labor earnings at the household level …

Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of … a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor …

In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … the first time, to our best understanding, into the factors that shape the decision of a poor household to care about and …

financial inclusion in Pune, a large city of India based on a household survey at an identified slum area. Empirical findings of …

There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes … pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do this, one has to distinguish between public and private pensions. The … design of public pensions cannot be separated from the one of taxation. Regarding private pensions, the key issue is whether …

pensions. Using a two-period overlapping generation model with potentially endogenous retirement decisions, it shows that both …