N ow, more than ever, it is crucial to address the topic of children and poverty in the U.S., given current scientific knowledge about poverty’s influence on children and ef fective strategies to mitigate its negative impact. In this report, we summarize the best available information on definitions and trends in child poverty, policy responses to child poverty and the impact of poverty on chil...

This article analyses the old and new dualisation processes that have emerged in Italy last twenty years. By focusing on dualising outcomes of labour market antipoverty policies, it addresses trajectories followed by dualisa-tion their effects divides between insiders outsiders. Within this framework is argued not a stable equilibrium, but rather result interconnections institutional arrangemen...

This paper examines the degree to which the corruption in developing countries may impair the ability of governments to redistribute wealth among their citizens. Specifically, I examine a large antipoverty program in Indonesia that distributed subsidized rice to poor households. I estimate the extent of corruption in the program by comparing administrative data on the amount of rice distributed...

Data aggregation across time and space, and endogeneity of crime policies have rendered identification of Becker’s model of criminal behavior quite arduous. This paper uses unique data on the benefits of individual crimes, in particular, 5,000 Italian bank robberies, to identify deterrence. Bank robbers behave according to an instantaneous version of Becker’s model of crime: during bank robberi...

We investigate the impact of the Romanian and Czech family policy systems on the poverty risk of families with children. We focus on separating out the effects of policy design itself and size of benefits from the interaction between policies and population characteristics. We find that interactions between population characteristics, the wider tax benefit system and child related policies are ...

How can a central government monitor the performance of a decentralized poverty program when the incidence of the program’s benefits is unobserved at the local level? This article shows that, using a poverty map and the corresponding spending allocation across geographic areas, one can identify the latent differences in mean program allocations to the poor and the nonpoor. The national measure ...

Longitudinal data from the New Hope Project--an experimental evaluation of a work-based antipoverty program in Milwaukee, Wisconsin--was used to explore concurrent and lagged associations of nonstandard schedules and variable shifts with parental psychological well-being, regularity of family mealtimes, and child well-being among low-income families. Working a combination of variable shifts and...

In AmerIcA, poverty is generally perceived as a temporary economic state, thanks in part to the American dream of permanent upward mobility. Nonetheless, many people are poor for many years, others for most if not all of their lives, and some may have been poor for generations. Since no one seems to have looked for or at them, this paper explores what I call multigenerational poverty, asks whet...