Using micro-data from household expenditure surveys, we document the evolution of consumption poverty in the United … poverty has not declined materially since the 1980s and even increased for the young. We then analyze which social and … economic factors help explain the extent of poverty in the U.S. using probit, tobit, and machine learning techniques. Our …

living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved … (2020) and Galiani, Gertler and Bando (2016) in their studies on the non-contributory pension schemes in Peru and Mexico …