The impact of exposure to a major unanticipated natural disaster on the evolution of survivors' attitudes toward risk … to take on risk relative to those not directly exposed to the tsunami. These differences are short-lived: starting a year … later, there is no evidence of differences in willingness to take on risk between the two groups. These conclusions hold for …

Climate change increases weather variability, exacerbating agricultural risk in poor countries. Risk-averse farmers are …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

poverty with respect to changes in the mean of the distribution of income, thus analytically linking the poverty measures to … key macroeconomic aggregates. Numerous insights are found in Kakwani's elasticities. However, the literature on poverty … and growth since then has revealed that the impacts of economic growth on poverty, as observed in practice, can be …

their own vulnerability and a measure of the justice system's expansive reach in society. Estimating the size of this … vulnerability. Finally, we document substantial geographic variation in exposure, which we leverage in a movers design to estimate …

How do aspirations influence investment decisions for people living in poverty? Does this change as peoples economic … similar effects to cash alone, potentially because cash raises aspirations. Thus, helping people living in poverty set higher …

In recent years, the psychological causes and consequences of poverty have received renewed attention from scientists …-dollar terms. We conclude by discussing whether a psychological poverty trap is plausible …