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Working Paper 2021-587 Abstract The passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996 devolved responsibility

Working Paper 2021-586 Abstract Intergenerational mobility has been linked to both the quality of neighborhoods and the quality of schools

Working Paper 2021-585 Abstract This paper investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on economic stimulus policy inequality. Using the

Working Paper 2021-584 Abstract Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in

Working Paper 2021-583 Abstract In this paper we bridge the gap between two different approaches to measure inequality: one based

Working Paper 2021-582 Abstract Using microsimulations this paper analyzes the poverty and tax implications of replacing current transfers and subsidies

Working Paper 2021-581 Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in wellbeing around the world. This paper seeks

Working Paper 2021-580 Abstract Despite being the poorest or second poorest participant, Vietnam performed much better than all other developing

Working Paper 2021-579 Abstract We estimate yearly inequality in anticipated lifetime earnings—a lower bound on “true” inequality that would apply

Working Paper 2021-578 Abstract The increasing growth of forced displacement worldwide has brought more attention to measuring poverty among refugee

Working Paper 2021-577 Abstract In many developing countries, the increasing public interest in monitoring economic inequality and mobility is hindered