tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative …

(2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers ́labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of … have minimized poverty among lone mothers. …

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 … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …

, and in particular to sea-level rise and its associated risks. We construct poverty and hardship profiles for households on …

report substantial poverty reductions from state and federal EZs, as well as improvements in other labor market outcomes. In … poverty. More generally, we find that both state and federal EZs appear to be endogenously selected based on prior changes in … poverty and other labor market outcomes. Once we account for this selection, much of the evidence that state and federal EZs …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …