A sound understanding of poverty traps—defined as poverty that is self-reinforcing due to
the poor's equilibrium behaviors—and their underlying mechanisms is fundamentally …

The moral and economic imperatives to intervene in poverty traps motivate the identification
of poverty traps and their structural causes so as to inform the design of appropriate policy …

Increasingly plentiful data and powerful predictive algorithms heighten the promise of data
science for humanitarian and development programming. We advocate for embrace of, and …

Until today there have been few databases that satisfy the theoretical requirements for
studying vulnerability to poverty as indicated in Chapter 2. Among existing datasets the …

Rationale To our knowledge, no prior studies have investigated these bidirectional
pathways between poverty and depressive symptoms to identify potential mechanisms …

We propose the development of a multicountry system of high-frequency, long-term sentinel
sites in the world's most vulnerable regions. If implemented along the lines we conceive, this …

We study household food security dynamics in the United States from 2001 to 2017 using a
new measure, the probability of food security (PFS), the estimated probability that a …

Using longitudinal data from rural Philippines, we decompose intergenerational income
elasticity (IGE) into five distinct pathways: intergenerational transmissions of health …

The objective of our study is to identify patterns and causes of households' transitions into
and out of poverty using the long household panel data on rural China in 1989–2009. We …

This paper applies the decomposition of the F oster–G reer–T horbecke poverty index to the
measurement of individual vulnerability to poverty. I highlight that poverty risk can be …