increase employment and to reduce poverty and public assistance. We also find some evidence that higher welfare benefits had … longer-run adverse effects, and quite robust evidence that tighter welfare time limits reduce poverty and public assistance …We estimate the longer-run effects of minimum wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and welfare on key economic …

information before, during, and after the 2020 economic crisis. Updating the PMT data does not improve social welfare relative to … increases social welfare. A dynamic method that uses data on shocks to estimate a variable component of income reduces exclusion … errors and limits the expansion in coverage, increasing social welfare during the economic crisis. We consider these …

analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … also greatly understates the effects of anti-poverty programs and changes our understanding of program targeting, often … making it seem that welfare programs are less targeted to both the very poorest and middle income households than they are …

effect of the DC supplemental earned income tax credit (EITC) and the federal EITC on poverty and income dynamics within … to estimate the likelihood of net-EITC income above poverty and near-poverty thresholds. We also estimate the likelihood … EITC raises the likelihood of net-EITC income above poverty and near poverty by as much as 9 percent, with the largest …

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

beneficiary population by studying the Pension 65 program in Peru, which uses a poverty eligibility threshold. We find that the …

that keep them from reducing poverty and inequality. To perform this assessment, we analyze three dimensions of size …: conditional cash transfers, non-contributory pensions, and other transfers. We use an international poverty line of 6.85 dollars … PPP per day (similar to the average national poverty line of upper middle-income countries) and adjust survey weights to …