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The Knowledge Trap : Human Capital and Development Reconsidered
Jones, Benjamin F. - 2008
knowledge. This simple idea can inform cross-country income differences, international trade patterns, poverty traps, and price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464508
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Eviction and Poverty in American Cities
Collinson, Robert; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
More than two million U.S. households have an eviction case filed against them each year. Policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels are increasingly pursuing policies to reduce the number of evictions, citing harm to tenants and high public expenditures related to homelessness. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362036
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Fighting Poverty One Family at a Time : Experimental Evidence from an Intervention with Holistic, Individualized, Wrap-Around Services
Evans, William N.; Kolka, Shawna; Sullivan, James X.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Families in poverty face numerous barriers to establishing stable economic footing. This paper examines the effect of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226189
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What Drives (Gaps in) Scientific Study Participation? Evidence from a COVID-19 Antibody Survey
Dutz, Deniz; Greenstone, Michael; Hortaçsu, Ali; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Underrepresentation of minority and poor households in scientific studies undermines policy decisions and public health. We study data from a serological study that randomized participation incentives. Participation is low (6% at $0, 17% at $100, 29% at $500) and unequal: minority and poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537774
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Civil Rights Protests and Election Outcomes : Exploring the Effects of the Poor People's Campaign
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Karbownik, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The Poor People's Campaign (PPC) of 1968 was focused on highlighting, and ultimately reducing, poverty in the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447294
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Poverty and Health
Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Schwandt, Hannes; Wherry, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries across individuals. However, not … all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of poverty on health vary across place and time. In this review …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056193
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Maternal and Infant Health Inequality : New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data
Kennedy-Moulton, Kate; Miller, Sarah; Persson, Petra; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use linked administrative data that combines the universe of California birth records, hospitalizations, and death records with parental income from Internal Revenue Service tax records and the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics file to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462741
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Global High-Resolution Estimates of the United Nations Human Development Index Using Satellite Imagery and Machine-learning
Sherman, Luke; Proctor, Jonathan; Druckenmiller, Hannah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) is arguably the most widely used alternative to gross domestic product for measuring national development. This is in large part due to its multidimensional nature, as it incorporates not only income, but also education and health. However, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247965
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Real-Time Poverty, Material Well-Being, and the Child Tax Credit
Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362025
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Growth Elasticities of Poverty Reduction
Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362055