global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative household … by household size but by the square-root of household size. While the regional profile of extreme poverty is robust to …Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in …

Employment helps reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a … conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply …

Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction …-term impact on food security, household savings, assets and participation in microfinance. Participant women are less likely to be …

monetary transfer is targeted to women and a local random assignment into the AFAM-PE which exogenously changed the intra-household … taking greater (perceived) responsibility for decisions in specific spheres of household expenditures. In conclusion … increase in women's control over household resources, offering suggestive considerations for the ongoing debate in developing …

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 …-2000, using the European Community Household Panel. The distinction between true state dependence and individual heterogeneity has …

The paper examines the mobility into and out of poverty and identifies the determinants of poverty spell beginnings and … endings in 14 European Countries for the period 1994-2000, using the European Community Household Panel. The first part of the … paper offers a snapshot of poverty mobility in Europe calculating the entry and exit poverty rates, along with the …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics for Russia, using the … equivalence scales constructed from subjective wealth and more than 20 waves of household panel survey data from the Russia …

Using longitudinal household data and an econometric model of conditional poverty transitions, this paper contributes … to the growing literature on poverty dynamics in Australian households. The results reveal that a range of household head … poor and slipping into poverty. These findings have important implications for Australian policymakers: tertiary education …

household registration (designed to limit domestic migration flows by denying urban public services to migrants with rural … hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household …

successful in alleviating inequality and poverty. Focussing on taxes and cash transfers, this paper investigates the impact of … inequality and poverty. We present BRAHMS, a new tax-benefit microsimulation model for Brazil and illustrate its use by …