-receiving states and metropolitan areas. Then I quantify the consequences of these wage effects on the poverty rates of native families … "poor" families among U.S.-born individuals. I consider the decade 2000-2009 during which poverty rates increased … no effect of immigration on native poverty at the national level. At the local level, only considering the most extreme …

Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left …

better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …

shallow knowledge. This simple idea can inform cross-country income differences, international trade patterns, poverty traps …

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …

living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved … (2020) and Galiani, Gertler and Bando (2016) in their studies on the non-contributory pension schemes in Peru and Mexico … Peru and Mexico and add to the construction of external validity …

using firm-level data in Chile, a non-OECD member under the considered time period, and France. We rely on two extensions of … period 1996-2003 in Chile containing unique data on firm-level output price indices and 14,270 firms over the period 1994 …

This paper deals with the reform to labor market regulation implemented by Chile during the last twenty years. We … taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European …