Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … poverty reduction. It decreases absolute poverty by 2-3 percentage points in terms of monetary income and up to 9 percentage …

We study two psychological channels how poverty may increase impatient behavior - an effect on time preference and … instead of working. We find that experimentally induced thoughts about poverty-related problems increase the preference to …

poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …

relatively large number of Indonesians. Because of low productivity, poverty has become the main social issue for farmers …

employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the conclusion that an increase in the minimum wage reduces poverty. In … contemporaneous changes in poverty rates. For the period 1983-96, we find indication of a poverty-reducing effect of minimum wages …