Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … eligibility. We apply recent advances in multidimensional measurement analysis to develop a straightforward method for summarizing … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty …

Interactive Fixed Effects Counterfactual Estimator, we estimate the causal effects of severe wildfire events on poverty, household …This paper examines the impact of severe wildfire events on Bolivia's poverty and labor market outcomes. We use a panel … from 2005 to 2020 utilizing NASA's MODIS Collection-6 MCD64A1 burned area product and household surveys. To attain survey …

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …

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 …

of social assistance is investigated. For this purpose, a scheme of classification suitable for grouping the EU15 schemes … developed. Subsequently, on the basis of LIS data the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing poverty through social assistance …

of social assistance is investigated. For this purpose, a scheme of classification suitable for grouping the EU15 schemes … reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

household's business. We also present some evidence of increases in profits and a reduction in consumption and savings. There is … no evidence that the program increased overall household income …

Raising the minimum wage in developing countries could increase or decrease poverty, depending on labor market … poor households. Whether raising minimum wages reduces poverty depends not only on whether formal sector workers lose jobs …

Despite record economic growth in the decade that followed the fall of the Taliban regime, poverty remained stubbornly … by combining a model of conflict intensity at the province level in 2007−14 with a model of consumption at the household …