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Title: Child Poverty and Income Mobility in the United States

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: Childhood poverty has long-lasting effects, but much of the literature on human capital formation suggests that different kinds of poverty have different effects. We classify children's poverty spells according to four distinct features-duration, intensity , timing, and concentration-which allows us to differentiate between childhood poverty profiles, to assign roles to each feature, and to examine interactions between them. We find that the duration of childhood poverty has a compounding nonlinear effect on adulthood rank, and that the other features matter much less. These findings suggest that policy interventions aimed at children who have experienced a short to moderate spell of poverty, and are at risk of experiencing more, will be most efficient.

Url: https://ag.purdue.edu/agecon/Documents/GradStudentJobPage/Tim Smith_JMP.pdf

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Authors: Smith, Tim; Delgado, Michael S; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.

Publisher: Purdue University

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Topics: Poverty and Welfare

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