comparative effects of cash transfers on inequality and poverty, using consistent household data. The analysis shows that the …

Using the 2012-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of energy poverty (EP) on …

Famine on the likelihood of being in energy poverty in adulthood. We find that a one unit increase in the intensity of the … probability of being in energy poverty in adulthood, depending on the exact specification and measure of energy poverty. We find … to be in energy poverty later in life. These findings are robust to alternative ways of measuring childhood adversity and …

We use the 2012-2018 China Family Panel Studies data to examine the relationship between household energy poverty and … probability of being an entrepreneur. The results are robust to various checks, including alternative measures of energy poverty … estimation methods and potential omitted variable bias. We also explore the channels through which energy poverty influences …

Using the 2012-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we investigate the impact of energy poverty (EP) on …

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 …

Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …

the top. Wealth remains remarkably absent from the analysis of poverty and the redistributive effectiveness of welfare … of financial need among the elderly - a segment of society that is at a relatively high risk of income poverty - also … of these findings for anti-poverty and redistributive policies. …