of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its …

, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for …Die Wahl einer passenden Äquivalenzskala ist Voraussetzung für Vergleiche der Einkommensverteilung ökonomischer …

Einkommensverteilung, zur Ungleichheit und zur Armut. Das vorliegende Diskussionspapier stellt Äquivalenzskalen auf der Basis von Konsum …, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …, daß Ungleichheit und Armut in den Vereinigten Staaten gößer sind als in Deutschland. Alle Personengruppen zusammen …

This paper studies the effects of remittances from the U.S. on child labor and school attendance in recipient Mexican …

This paper reviews research about the intergenerational transmission of poverty in industrialized countries. In order … to make our survey manageable, we restrict attention to studies that consider the relationship between parental poverty …, and that this impact is not wholly explained by other factors that are themselves correlated with childhood poverty. At …

This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty …. The model shows that even under relatively minimal assumptions, a connection between individual poverty and both property …