This paper studies the effects of the Vietnam Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction (HEPR) program on school … treatment (at age 8) increases children enrolment by about 9 percent. This positive effect disappears by age 15, and is more … pronounced in urban areas. In sharp contrast, children receiving treatment later (age 12–15) are more likely to drop out by age …

We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country … Ecuador. Two years after families lost the transfer, which they had received for seven years, their young children weigh less …, and are shorter and more likely to be stunted than young children in families that kept the cash transfer. We find no …

We explore the impact of authorization on the poverty exposure of households headed by undocumented immigrants. The … the likelihood of life in poverty of households headed by eligible individuals by 38 percent, hinting at the gains from …

recent economic research on the welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries, and explore their implications. We … begin with the conceptualisation and measurement of poverty, before sketching out some core features and approaches to the … welfare state and anti-poverty policies. We then focus on the central plank of the modern welfare state's efforts to address …

Programs to fight poverty aim at allowing individuals to support themselves ex-post, when they are not part of the …

cash transfer, in Lesotho. We show that the poorest households do not increase investment in children's human capital … cash transfers might not be always effective to support the investment in children's human capital of the poorest …

involves the clarification of feasible targets that may vary across the OECD. -- poverty ; children ; social policy … poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries …

This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of … nationally designated poor county in China. Using the difference-in-differences approach, we show that targeted poverty … empirical evidence for boys. Our findings suggest that the new anti-poverty program in China has the potential to ameliorate the …

well below the EU at-risk-of-poverty thresholds in many countries. Single earners with dependent children are especially at … risk of poverty. We discuss the options for making progress. …

dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock … analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately understood as a dynamic, with the majority of people flowing in and out … of poverty for short durations. Distinguishing between structural and transitory poverty gives rise to a focus on the …