-run effects of the EITC are to increase employment and to reduce poverty and public assistance, as long as we rely on national as … well as state variation in EITC policy. Second, tighter welfare time limits also reduce poverty and public assistance in … on poverty is more likely behavioral. It is harder to draw firm conclusions about minimum wages and welfare benefits …

, but on net reduce urban poverty. Second, we expand the analysis of distributional effects beyond looking just at the … poverty threshold. We do not find that living wages increase the depth of poverty among families that remain poor, and we find … that families somewhat below and somewhat above the poverty line are also helped by living wages. Finally, we suggest that …

matched March CPS surveys, focusing on the effectiveness of minimum wages in reducing poverty. The results show that over a … one-to-two year period, minimum wages increase both the probability that poor families escape poverty and the probability … that previously non-poor families fall into poverty. The estimated increase in the number of non-poor families that fall …