"Despite robust growth in real per capita GDP over the last three decades, the U.S. poverty rate has changed very … little. In an effort to better understand this disconnect, we document and quantify the relationship between poverty and four … different factors that may affect poverty and its evolution over time: labor market opportunities, family structure, anti-poverty …

in relative prices on inequality and poverty. This book shows the shift in the literature on prices from being an … theory-based analysis of household behavior. It also includes recent developments in the poverty measurement literature …, documenting the shift from the exclusively money metric and unidimensional poverty measures to multidimensional poverty …

Despite robust growth in real per capita GDP over the last three decades, the U.S. poverty rate has changed very little …. In an effort to better understand this disconnect, we document and quantify the relationship between poverty and four … different factors that may affect poverty and its evolution over time: labor market opportunities, family structure, anti-poverty …