About 11% of the Chinese population are rural-urban migrants with a rural hukou that severely restricts their children …'s access to urban schools. As a result, 69 million children are left behind in rural areas. We use two regression … are more likely to separate from children to take advantage of new opportunities in cities. Those workers earn much more …

living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved …

How did industrialization in the nineteenth century affect the well-being of children among American working class … working in the industries examined did not, it appears, compensate their children for the reduced future earnings implied by …

Food Stamp spending, during the Great Recession. In this paper we examine the relationship between poverty, the social … the Great Recession. We do so using an alternative measure of poverty that incorporates taxes and in-kind transfers. We … disadvantaged. In the post-welfare reform world, TANF did not respond in the Great Recession and extreme poverty is more cyclical …

We document how an anti-poverty program improves economic and subjective wellbeing, and self-sufficiency. Familias en …

This paper presents a productivity argument for investing in disadvantaged young children. For such investment, there …

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 …