This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries … analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates of the poverty reduction impact are presented in a normalized and un …

This study investigates the characteristics that contribute to elderly poverty, mainly focusing on individuals …' lifetime work experience. It adopts the heterogeneous relative poverty line which differs by gender, province of residence and … Study's survey data for 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2015. The objective is to estimate poverty amongst elderly and explain its …

analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … understates the effects of anti-poverty programs and changes our understanding of program targeting, often making it seem that … welfare programs are less targeted to both the very poorest and middle-income households than they are. Using the combined …

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … with GDP per capita: poverty accounts for a much greater share of the welfare costs in poorer countries. Finally, the … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual herd immunity scenario: without any policy intervention, LYs …

This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s, which dramatically limited cash … of the reforms for the next generation.Using two nationally-representative datasets, we exploit differences in welfare … plausibly causal effects of welfare reform on a range of prosocial and antisocial behaviors (volunteering, participating in …