reduced poverty. Yet given the extent of public resources invested, was this the most that policy makers could expect in terms … of reducing poverty? To answer this question, I estimate a discrete choice model of work and welfare participation … decisions, and use the behavioral estimates to derive the policy parameters that would have minimized poverty among lone mothers …

children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … concentrated in the lower quintiles and have higher child poverty prevalence than for adults, but receive lower social protection … both universal and targeted, anti-poverty, outcomes. Different versions of simple static and purely arithmetic micro …