The Brazilian Northeast is a region characterized by high levels of poverty and inequality. These aspects hinder its … poverty, infant mortality, and birth outcomes in the Brazilian Northeast region. Using a difference-in-differences approach … robust to heterogenous treatment effects, we find that the program led to a significant reduction in poverty and infant …

I discuss recent books offering differing explanations for persistent U.S. poverty. Desmond (2023) argues that aid to …

Disability is both a fundamental cause and consequence of income poverty. The income-poverty rate for persons with … about income poverty in the United States is largely silent about disability. This paper argues that we need to have a … broader view of what poverty is and also that disability must be taken into account in anti-poverty policy. …

This report details how the dominant framework for understanding and measuring poverty in the United States has become … a conservative one. The current U.S. approach to measuring poverty views poverty only in terms of having an extremely … low level of annual income, and utilizes poverty thresholds that are adjusted only for inflation rather than for changes …