This paper uses an RCT to estimate the impact of PROBEMS, a scholarship program in Mexico aimed at improving graduation …

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 …

directed funding in ways consistent with the War on Poverty's rhetoric of fighting poverty and racial discrimination: poorer … explain the strong backlash against the War on Poverty's programs …

beneficiary population by studying the Pension 65 program in Peru, which uses a poverty eligibility threshold. We find that the …) in their study on a non-contributory pension scheme in Mexico. Thus, we conclude that the effects of non …-contributory pensions on well-being in rural Mexico can be largely generalized to Peru …

at which households come out of poverty affects their asset purchase decisions. We provide empirical support for these … Mexico's conditional cash transfer program. We find that transfers had a large effect on asset accumulation among the low …

poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) - a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …

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

the late 1970s. In contrast, bottom income quantiles and poverty rates have converged across areas in recent decades …

place and compare them to the poverty line, manufacturing earnings and benefits, state per capita incomes in the US, as well …

This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of …