In this paper, we comprehensively examine the effects of the Great Recession on child poverty, with particular … panel data model and data for 2000 to 2014, we estimate the relationship between the business cycle and child poverty, and … we examine how and to what extent the safety net is providing protection to at-risk children. We find compelling evidence …

children is more responsive after reform, and some evidence that it might be less so. There is some evidence that poverty … families with children. Importantly, along with other changes, the reform imposed lifetime time limits for receipt of welfare … de facto ending the entitlement nature of cash welfare for poor families with children in the United States. Despite dire …

children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to longitudinal vital statistics on the universe of … transfers may help break the cycle of intergenerational poverty …

Scholars emphasize that poverty in Britain has risen sharply since the late 1970s. Meanwhile in the United States, both … official figures and traditional poverty scholars report sharp declines in poverty. We seek to provide a comparison of poverty …, or policy-account for the observed changes in poverty in the two nations and what role could policy play in reducing …

Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left …

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 …

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 …

was prepared as a background paper for the Committee on Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Children in Poverty by …US Census Bureau poverty measures do not include an explicit need for health care or insurance nor do they consider … on poverty. This paper reviews conceptual and practical considerations in incorporating health benefits and needs into …

anti-poverty effect on children than any existing government program, though at a higher cost per child raised above the … available to all low and middle-income families regardless of earnings or income. We estimate the anti-poverty, targeting, and … of the CTC would reduce child poverty by 34% and deep child poverty by 39%. The expansion of the CTC would have a larger …

This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food …