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    The Oxford handbook of the economics of poverty / edited by Philip N. Jefferson.
    Oxford, New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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  • Poverty -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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  • Poor -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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  • Labor market -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  • Description: 
    xiii, 849 p. ; 26 cm.
    Contents: 
    Introduction and overview -- The alleviation of poverty : how far have we come? -- Consumption and income poverty in the United States -- Poverty lines across the world -- Theories of poverty : traditional explanations and new directions -- Poverty and the labor market -- Employment in Black urban labor markets : problems and solutions -- Low-skilled immigrants and the US labor market -- Poverty and low earnings in the developing world -- Antipoverty programs for poor children and families -- Education and the poor -- Poverty, health, and healthcare -- Geographical price variation, housing assistance, and poverty -- Distributions in motion : economic growth, inequality, and poverty dynamics -- Is poverty incompatible with asset accumulation? -- Poverty transitions -- Macroeconomic fluctuations and poverty -- Obesity, poverty, and the ability to pay for calories -- Environmental justice : do poor and minority populations face more hazards? -- Female trust in government and gender income inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Crime, incarceration, and poverty -- Payday lending : new research and the big question -- An assessment of the effectiveness of antipoverty programs in the United States -- Are economists in over their heads? -- Antipoverty policy : the role of individualist and structural perspectives -- A new statistic : the US Census Bureau's supplemental poverty measure.
    Series: 
    Oxford handbooks.
    ISBN: 
    9780195393781 (cloth : alk. paper)
    0195393783 (cloth : alk. paper)
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