This paper investigates monetary policy's influence on poverty and inequality in both the short run and the long run …

using a social welfare function that puts negative weight on increases in the income of high income individuals. The real … distributional problem is not inequality but poverty. The paper considers three sources of poverty and asks what if anything might be …

This paper examines poverty in the United States from 1960 through 2005. We investigate how poverty rates and poverty … different income and consumption measures of poverty, and consider explanations for the differences in trends. We document sharp … differences, particularly in recent years, between different income poverty measures, and between income and consumption poverty …

offset the cost of health care live in families with incomes twice the poverty line or more and, depending on how coverage is …

exertion and food intake -- and the underlying causes of obesity -- childhood and adult poverty, depression, and attitudes …

In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data … consumption. Measures of overall and sub-group poverty also sharply differ. In addition to examining broader populations and a …

childhood (family income and poverty measures, family characteristics including parental education, and child characteristics …