Exposure to childhood poverty increases the likelihood of adult poverty. However, past research offers conflicting … accounts of cross-national variation in the strength of the intergenerational persistence of poverty and the mechanisms through … which it is channeled. This study investigates differences in intergenerational poverty in the United States (U …

According to the Blacks’ Diminished Return theory, the health effects of high socioeconomic status (SES) are … poverty. Aims: Using a nationally representative sample of American families with children, this study investigated racial … variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income …

since it impacts human capital transmission. When poor parents cannot afford to invest in health, poverty traps may arise as … whether households fall into the poverty trap. We demonstrate that high-quality schools ensure that successive generations …. We calibrate our model for Brazil and Chile and show that our model predicts that a poverty trap will arise in Brazil but …

that schooling. The theory developed here explains the forsaken schooling phenomenon, which shows that low-skilled and …

foreign direct investment (FDI). This paper examines the impact of international remittances on poverty reduction using the … panel data of 10 Asian developing countries. In terms of the dependent variables, this paper sets three poverty indicators …: poverty headcount ratio, poverty gap ratio, and poverty severity ratio. Results show that international remittances have a …

This paper aims to develop a relational geographical interpretation of energy poverty in the post-socialist states of … Skopje. I argue that energy poverty is produced by the relationships among three sets of contingencies: the socio … may become imprisoned in particular types of socio-spatial arrangements that contribute to the emergence of poverty …