Household-level data on consumer expenditures underpin a wide range of empirical
research in modern economics, spanning micro-and macroeconomics. This research …

This paper utilizes the county-by-county rollout of China's New Rural Pension Scheme
(NRPS) and finds that, among age-eligible people, the pension scheme leads to higher …

Social capital theorists have shown that some people do better than others in part because
they enjoy larger, more supportive, or otherwise more useful networks. But why do some …

In a predominantly low-income, population-based longitudinal sample of 1,259 children
followed from birth, results suggest that chronic exposure to poverty and the strains of …

We examine the consequences of survey underreporting of transfer programs for
prototypical analyses of low-income populations. We link administrative data for four transfer …

For antitrust practitioners, scholars, and economists-those who work with antitrust in
agencies, courts, or law firms-the development of the antitrust laws over the past half century …

The world of welfare has changed radically. As the poor trade welfare checks for low-wage
jobs, their low earnings qualify them for a hefty check come tax time—a combination of the …

This paper presents an updated cost-benefit analysis of the High/Scope Perry preschool
Program, using data on individuals aged 40. Children were randomly assigned to a …

High rates of understatement are found for many government transfer programs and in many
datasets. This understatement has major implications for our understanding of economic …

Reciprocal associations among measures of family resources, parenting quality, and child
cognitive performance were investigated in an ethnically diverse, low‐income sample of …