This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures
derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures
trade-off…
The notion of a “resource curse” has been most commonly applied in explaining why many countries apparently blessed with abundant reserves…
Female education levels are very low in many developing countries.
Does maternal education have a causal impact on children's…
Despite the high level of funding and policy interest in prisoner
reentry, there is still little rigorous scientific evidence to guide…
We exploit random assignment of gender quotas for leadership positions on Indian village councils to show that prior exposure to a female…
This book is a dialogue about poverty in North America, especially in Mexico and the United States. Poverty has different roots and…
Iceland (1) has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway (3) which slipped to third…
Much of the inequality literature has focused
on national inequality, but local inequality is also important. Crime
rates are higher in…
Featuring all 23 policy proposals and 30 response essays presented at the American Society of Criminology's 2009 annual meeting,…