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 …

We use data from the March 1968-2001 Current Population Surveys to document the evolution of elderly poverty over this … time period, and to assess the causal role of the Social Security program in reducing poverty rates. We develop an … elderly poverty. Our findings suggest that over all elderly families the elasticity of poverty to benefits is roughly unitary …

used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income … use data from the Health and Retirement Study to find income-based poverty rates which we compare with poverty rates as … measured in the Current Population Survey. We use HRS consumption data to calculate a consumption-based poverty rate and study …

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 …

This paper considers the long-run patterns of poverty in the United States from the early 1960s to 2010. Our results … contradict previous studies that have argued that poverty has shown little improvement over time or that anti-poverty efforts … have been ineffective. We find that moving from traditional income-based measures of poverty to a consumption-based measure …

poverty estimates based on the new Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) from 1967 to 2012. During this period, poverty as … officially measured has stagnated. However, the official poverty measure (OPM) does not account for the effect of near … increasingly important part of government anti-poverty policy. Applying the SPM, which does count such transfers, we find that …

We develop and implement what we believe is the first conceptually valid health-inclusive poverty measure (HIPM …)—a measure that includes health care or insurance in the poverty needs threshold and health insurance benefits in family … resources—and we discuss its limitations. Building on the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure, we construct a pilot …

The paper critically assesses prevailing measures of global poverty. A welfarist interpretation of global poverty lines … falling incidence of poverty globally over the last 30 years. This is mainly due to lower absolute poverty counts in the … standard. The vast bulk of poverty, both absolute and relative, is now found in the developing world.Institutional subscribers …

World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … poverty if we use other poverty lines. We find that various measures of global inequality have declined substantially and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 …

Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element …, measures of inequality that ignore intra household allocations are both incomplete and misleading. We discuss determinants of …