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Social Protection and Economic Development : Are the Poorest Being Lifted-Up or Left-Behind?
Ravallion, Martin - 2018
Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453055
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Poverty Traps and the Social Protection Paradox
Ikegami, Munenobu - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455966
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Child Poverty, the Great Recession, and the Social Safety Net in the United States
Bitler, Marianne - 2016
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 … that the safety net provides protection; that is, the cyclicality of after-tax-and-transfer child poverty is significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455998
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Social Security and the American Family
Boskin, Michael J. - 1987
This paper presents the results of a computer simulation of the expected present value of benefits, taxes, and transfers, rates of return, and marginal linkage of benefits and taxes for persons of different income levels and family status. A number of important issues associated with the "deal"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476952
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The Social Safety Net in the Wake of COVID-19
Bitler, Marianne - 2020
The COVID-19 crisis has led to spiking unemployment rates with disproportionate impacts on low-income families. School and child-care center closures have also meant lost free- and reduced-price school meals. Food prices have increased sharply leading to reduced purchasing power for families'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481099
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Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program
Bailey, Martha J. - 2020
We use novel, large-scale data on 43 million Americans from the 2000 Census and the 2001 to 2013 American Communities Survey linked to the Social Security Administration's NUMIDENT to study how a policy-driven increase in economic resources for families affects children's long-term outcomes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481899
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"Unfunded Liabilities" and Uncertain Fiscal Financing
Davig, Troy - 2010
We develop a rational expectations framework to study the consequences of alternative means to resolve the "unfunded liabilities'' problem---unsustainable exponential growth in federal Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid spending with no plan to finance it. Resolution requires specifying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462870
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Adjusting Government Policies for Age Inflation
Shoven, John B. - 2008
Government policies that are based on age do not adjust to the fact that a given age is associated with a higher remaining life expectancy and lower mortality risk relative to earlier time periods due to improvements in mortality. We examine four possible methods for adjusting the eligibility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464411
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How do the U.S and Canadian Social Safety Nets Compare for Women and Children?
Hoynes, Hilary - 2017
poverty. In particular, we focus on the two largest programs over this period: the U.S. EITC and the Canadian NCB/CCTB. In … light of these policy changes, we examine trends in employment and poverty of the most affected families -- single mothers … relative trends are mainly explained by differences in the labor market conditions. Poverty rates for single mothers also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455301
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Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net
Bitler, Marianne - 2011
trends in program participation, income, and poverty among immigrants (and natives). We pay particular attention to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460990