Green’s Substack post delved into the well-known concepts of “the two-income trap” and benefit "cliffs.” The former is ...

We used to be trapped. And by “we,” I really do mean all of us. A few hundred years ago, the majority of the world lived in extreme poverty, and even in recent decades, people lucky enough to clear ...

When Gen Z was born, America was grappling with the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Their childhoods ...

Being poor is expensive. You don’t need to be told that, especially if you’re always living paycheck to paycheck and are struggling to get by; you’ve noticed. Still, when you’re just trying to get ...

Chronic poverty in the developing world can seem like an insoluble problem. But a long-term study from Bangladesh co-authored by an MIT economist presents a very different picture: When rural poor ...

The paper examines the household asset dynamics in India as well as Indian rural States. The paper contributes to the empirical analysis of poverty trap by investigating the presence of one potential ...

There has never been a better argument for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) than the devastating global impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. As widespread infectious disease outbreaks are increasing in ...

Washington, D.C. — The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new attention to the harms caused by “asset limits,” or “asset tests,” which prevent people from receiving many life-sustaining public benefit ...

PABBO, Uganda — Ana quietly joined the line, her 2-year-old daughter, Margaret, in tow. She carefully placed her green and yellow plastic containers behind the hundreds of others, and then joined the ...