Developing country governments are increasingly implementing cash assistance programs to combat poverty and inequality …

using the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and inequality statistics. We link administrative … income of poor households. Underreporting in the survey data also greatly understates the effects of anti-poverty programs … and changes our understanding of program targeting. Using the combined data rather than survey data alone, the poverty …

Many studies examine the anti-poverty effects of social insurance and means-tested transfers, relying solely on survey … Program Participation data. Using the linked data, we find that Social Security cuts the poverty rate by a third – more than … effective. All programs except for the EITC sharply reduce deep poverty (below 50% of the poverty line), while the impact of the …

Progressively targeted cash transfers remain the dominant policy response to chronic poverty in developing countries …. But are there alternative social protection policies that might have larger poverty impacts over time for the same public … vulnerable, but non-poor households in the wake of negative shocks, can result in lower rates of poverty in the medium term than …

living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved …

to poorest. When poverty is defined using per-capita expenditure and the common PPP$2 per day threshold, we find that … poverty: the results of community-based methods are more correlated with how individual community members rank each other and …

perceived limitations of piecemeal, targeted approaches to reducing extreme poverty. We discuss what we know (and what we do not …