We assess the impact of the New Hope Project, an antipoverty program tested in a random assignment experimental design, on family functioning and developmental outcomes for preschool- and school-aged children (N = 913). New Hope offered wage supplements sufficient to raise family income above the poverty threshold and subsidies for child care and health insurance to adults who worked full-time....

This study examined the age-specific pattern of effects of welfare policies on child achievement. Drawing from 7 random-assignment welfare and antipoverty evaluations that provided more than 30,000 observations of children's achievement, this study found that times of developmental transition are the only periods sensitive to the changes in families brought about by these policies. More specifi...

USD Trans-Border Institute • 1 • www.sandiego.edu/tbi ...microcredit advocates believe that access to credit enables people to improve their own lives and economic situation. ...this brief examines the use of microcredit lending in the U.S.-Mexico border region, a complex, highly metropolitan area. Microcredit Lending in the Border Region Microcredit lending has become a major innovation in ant...

ABSTRACf A wealth of solutions to poverty have been proposed, with little understanding of the forces required to turn a sound idea into an "implementable" program. A system approach is suggested to overcome this deficiency. This implies analyzing the effects of antipoverty measures on other elements of a society and a polity and the "feedback" effects of changes in these other elements on the ...

Information and communications technologies have yet to impact more than 4 billion poor and illiterate people who are still deprived of the basic means of economic, social and health betterment. The potential role of cellphone based services as an effective tool of economic emancipation and social improvement is highlighted in this paper. The time has come to harness the adoption of cell phone ...

Using data from the March Current Population Surveys, this paper provides mid-1980s poverty rates by state under four alternative measures of poverty: the official measure, prewelfare poverty, pretransfer poverty (federal and state transfers), and a new measure, pre-state-transfer poverty. It also analyzes state-by-state the antipoverty effectiveness of transfers. The results show considerable ...