The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment offered randomly selected families living in high-poverty housing projects … housing vouchers to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods. We present new evidence on the impacts of MTO on children's long …-term outcomes using administrative data from tax returns. We find that moving to a lower-poverty neighborhood significantly improves …

In what is probably the largest cash transfer program in the world today China’s Dibao program aims to fill all poverty … gaps. In theory, the program creates a poverty trap, with 100% benefit withdrawal rate (BWR). But is that what we see in …, and is also lower than the rate implied by optimal income tax models for poverty reduction. The paper discusses likely …

Despite robust growth in real per capita GDP over the last three decades, the U.S. poverty rate has changed very little …. In an effort to better understand this disconnect, we document and quantify the relationship between poverty and four … different factors that may affect poverty and its evolution over time: labor market opportunities, family structure, anti-poverty …

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 …

(SIPP) to investigate the impact that child SSI enrollment has on household outcomes such as poverty, household earnings … reduction in the probability that a child lives in poverty of roughly 11 percentage points. Additional analyses suggest that …

The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of … available surveys for the developing world over 1981-2011, the expected value of the floor is about half the $1.25 a day poverty …