security and lower poverty rates among beneficiaries compared to non-beneficiaries. However, we find no impact on asset …

Until now, the dominant belief concerning the relationship between poverty and risk aversion is that the poor are more … poverty. However, both empirical and experimental evidence show no clear pattern such as would suggest that the poor are … from households living in poverty and extreme poverty wherein they participated in a baseline risk experiment that was the …

visits by trained social workers to households in extreme poverty with preferential access to social programs. We use a … that this major national program is likely to fail in making a significant contribution to reducing extreme poverty. We …

had in specific contexts presents an opportunity to utilize them as tools for tackling a prevalent type of poverty at the … EU level: energy poverty. Recent contributions to the literature highlight the role of inefficient energy behavior as a … significant driver of this particular type of poverty, which is characterized by an inability to afford the basic energy services …