extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity … find strong and lasting impacts of the program on the take up of subsidies and employment services. These impacts are …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …

meaningful employment, are becoming increasingly popular in developing countries. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act …

that minimum wages reduce employment, with the exception of high school dropouts. In contrast, evidence strongly suggests … that the EITC boosts employment of young women (although not teenagers). We also explore how minimum wages and the EITC … the EITC boosts employment and earnings for minority women, and coupling the EITC with a higher minimum wage appears to …

accompanied by an employment increase of similar magnitude. To understand the absence of labor supply effects, we examine data on …

minimumincome benefits. More generous child benefits have also helped to increase net disposableincomes of families on minimum …

The paper analyzes the effects of individual and household characteristics on current poverty status, while controlling … for initial conditions, past poverty status and unobserved heterogeneity in 14 European Countries for the period 1994 … very important policy implications, since if the former is the main cause of poverty it is of paramount importance to break …

The paper examines the mobility into and out of poverty and identifies the determinants of poverty spell beginnings and … paper offers a snapshot of poverty mobility in Europe calculating the entry and exit poverty rates, along with the … conditional, to the duration of spell, exit probabilities and re-entry rates to poverty. In the second part observed …

This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty …. The model shows that even under relatively minimal assumptions, a connection between individual poverty and both property …

poverty. Results from estimating probability models indicate that social assistance receipt is strongly linked to joblessness …. However, as the Di Bao payments typically are small and many of the urban poor are not receivers, much urban poverty remains …