are greater among urban households. However, more poor people in India live in villages, so rural poverty impacts are …

Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction …

analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … inequality statistics. We link administrative data for food stamps, TANF, General Assistance, and subsidized housing from New … understates the effects of anti-poverty programs and changes our understanding of program targeting, often making it seem that …

We interpret social transfers broadly as a set of measures to reduce or relieve poverty, and study how well this … the countries for a range of definitions of the poverty threshold. The methods are also applied to two subpopulations of …

, stable, and non-means-tested benefit. Its main aims are to mitigate poverty and subsequently promote self …

extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

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 …

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 …