children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to longitudinal vital statistics on the universe of … transfers may help break the cycle of intergenerational poverty …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper analyses the duration of child poverty in Germany. In our sample, we observe the entire income history from … the individuals' birth to their coming of age at age 18. Therefore we are able to analyze dynamics in and out of poverty … for the entire population of children, whether they become poor at least once or not. Using duration models, we allow …

This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2001 … focuses upon comparisons between East and West Germany, by family structure, and citizenship status. Child poverty rates have … part these changes are due to increasing poverty among children from households headed by non-citizens. Children in single …

development. We find significant impacts on cognitive development in children 0-60 months, with an average effect size of 0.13 SD …. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer …, which targeted families with 0-5-year-old children only, benefited significantly from the program, whereas 0-5 year-olds in …

. Using interactions between the targeting criteria and the treatment indicator, estimates suggest that children located in …