Poverty in the U.S.: Why Is It So Persistent?

A Treatise on the Family

1981 • 9,085 citations

The Truly Disadvantaged. The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy. By William Julius Wilson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. 254p. $19.95.

1988 • 6,398 citations

Schooling in Capitalist America

1979 • 2,463 citations

Evaluating the Econometric Evaluations of Training Programs with Experimental Data

1986 • 1,814 citations

Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980

1984 • 1,472 citations

Opportunity and Change

1978 • 1,322 citations

Socioeconomic Background and Achievement

1975 • 1,005 citations

Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff. By Arthur M. Okun. (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1975. Pp. 124. $6.95.)

1977 • 831 citations

Labor supply of men: A survey

1987 • 810 citations

The Distribution of Labor Incomes: A Survey with Special Reference to the Human Capital Approach

1970 • 651 citations

The Challenge of Segmented Labor Market Theories to Orthodox Theory: A Survey

1976 • 636 citations

Generating Inequality - Mechanisms of Distribution in the U.S. Economy

1975 • 573 citations

Theoretical Assumptions and Nonobserved Facts

1971 • 485 citations

VALUING GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES: THE CASE OF MEDICAL CARE TRANSFERS AND POVERTY*

1980 • 400 citations

Welfare Comparisons and Equivalence Scales

1979 • 348 citations

The Time-Poor: A New Look at Poverty

1977 • 308 citations

Poverty and Family Structure: The Widening Gap between Evidence and Public Policy Issues

1986 • 282 citations

Years of Poverty, Years of Plenty

1985 • 271 citations

Income Distribution and Poverty

1989 • 267 citations

Macroeconomic Activity and Income Distribution in the Postwar United States

1978 • 266 citations

Public Expenditures, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income: The United States, 1950, 1961, 1970.

1978 • 265 citations

The Trade-Off between Equality and Efficiency

1984 • 251 citations

The Unheavenly City

1971 • 241 citations

Taxes and labor supply

1983 • 224 citations

Policy Exploration through Microanalytic Simulation

1976 • 196 citations

Theories of Personal Income Distribution: A Survey

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Fighting Poverty: What Works and What Doesn't. Edited by Sheldon H. Danziger and Daniel H. Weinberg (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986. 419p. $27.50).

1987 • 184 citations

AN INCOME-NET WORTH APPROACH TO MEASURING ECONOMIC WELFARE

1968 • 178 citations

Toward an Economic Theory of Income Distribution.

1976 • 174 citations

Analyzing the American Income Distribution

1970 • 154 citations

Kinometrics: Determinants of Socioeconomic Success within and between Families

1978 • 135 citations

Who paid the taxes, 1966-85?

1985 • 131 citations

More Medical Care, Better Health?

1984 • 105 citations

The Antipoverty Effectiveness of In-Kind Transfers

1977 • 105 citations

Trickling Down: The Relationship Between Economic Growth and the Extent of Poverty Among American Families

1964 • 102 citations

An Essay on Youth Joblessness

2016 • 101 citations

Ends and Means of Reducing Income Poverty

1974 • 99 citations

Work and Welfare as Determinants of Female Poverty and Household Headship

1982 • 94 citations

Earnings Inequality among Males in the United States: Trends and the Effect of Labor Force Growth

1984 • 93 citations

TRUE HOUSEHOLD EQUIVALENCE SCALES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE POOR IN THE UNITED STATES

1982 • 89 citations

Targeting Would-Be Long-Term Recipients of AFDC

1986 • 79 citations

Cyclical Sensitivity of Aggregate Income Inequality

1977 • 77 citations

The Effect of Government Policies On Out-of-Wedlock Sex and Pregnancy

1977 • 77 citations

Myth and Reality: The Causes and Persistence of Poverty

1985 • 76 citations

Poverty Policy and Poverty Research: The Great Society and the Social Sciences

1989 • 74 citations

The Distribution of Earned Income among Men and Women, 1958-77.

1980 • 72 citations

Private Crisis, Public Cost: Policy Perspectives on Teenage Childbearing

1982 • 70 citations

POVERTY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: TRICKLE DOWN PETERS OUT

1978 • 67 citations

A Framework for Evaluating the Effects of Economic Growth and Transfers on Poverty

1985 • 63 citations

Welfare remarriage and marital search

1979 • 62 citations

Jobs, Cash Transfers and Marital Instability: A Review and Synthesis of the Evidence

1980 • 61 citations

Progress against Poverty: A Review of the 1964-1974 Decade

1976 • 59 citations

Youth employment and training programs : the YEDPA years

1985 • 57 citations

The ISO-Prop Index: An Approach to the Determination of Differential Poverty Income Thresholds

1967 • 56 citations

INTERFAMILY TRANSFERS AS ALTERNATIVES TO GOVERNMENT TRANSFERS TO PERSONS*

1983 • 55 citations

AFDC Income, Recipient Rates, and Family Dissolution

1974 • 53 citations

The Distributional Effects of Higher Unemployment

1974 • 51 citations

Permanent homelessness in America?

1987 • 51 citations

Unemployment and Poverty

1980 • 50 citations

Poverty in America: Is Welfare the Answer or the Problem?

1985 • 49 citations

The Use and Effects of Welfare: A Survey of Recent Evidence

1988 • 48 citations

A Decade of Policy-Developments in Improving Education and Training for Low-Income Populations

1977 • 47 citations

Earnings Capacity, Poverty, and Inequality

1979 • 46 citations

The Youth Labor Market Problem: Its Nature, Causes, and Consequences

1983 • 44 citations

The Effect of Direct Job Creation and Training Programs on Low-Skilled Workers

1985 • 41 citations

Income Distribution-Can Economists Help?

1975 • 40 citations

POVERTY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: HAS TRICKLE DOWN PETERD OUT?

1980 • 39 citations

The Declining Middle Class: A Further Analysis.

1986 • 36 citations

Is More Better? The Effectiveness of Spending on Compensatory Education.

1983 • 34 citations

Income transfers and family structure

1975 • 32 citations

Social Welfare Spending: Accounting for Changes from 1950 to 1978.

1985 • 32 citations

Changed Lives: The Effects of the Perry Preschool Program on Youths through Age 19. Monographs of the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, Number Eight.

1984 • 31 citations

THE SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME DURING INFLATION

1979 • 31 citations

Wage Inequality Takes a Great U-Turn

1986 • 31 citations

THE EFFECTS OF MACROECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME*

1973 • 29 citations

GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty—San Juan and New York. O<scp>scar</scp> L<scp>ewis</scp>

1968 • 24 citations

A Decade of Federal antipoverty programs : achievements, failures, and lessons

1977 • 23 citations

Will the underclass always be with us?

1987 • 21 citations

Income distribution and redistribution

1978 • 19 citations

Characteristics of the Population Below the Poverty Level: 1975

1977 • 16 citations

Private Crisis, Public Cost: Policy Perspectives on Teenage Childbearing. By Kristin A. Moore and Martha R. Burt. Washington, DC: Urban Institute, 1982 and Pregnancy in Adolescence: Needs, Problems, and Management. Edited by Irving R. Stuart and Carl F. Wells. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1982

1983 • 15 citations

AFDC Income, Recipient Rates, and Family Dissolution: A Comment

1976 • 15 citations

A utility-based analysis of the wage subsidy program

1981 • 14 citations

Inflation, unemployment, and poverty

1971 • 10 citations

The Effectiveness of Current Transfer Programs in Reducing Poverty

1982 • 8 citations

In-Kind Transfers and the Size Distribution of Income

1977 • 8 citations

Poverty and Transfers In-Kind: A Re-Evaluation of Poverty in the United States

1980 • 8 citations

MISMEASURING POVERTY AND PROGRESS

1987 • 5 citations

Recent Trends in Poverty and the Antipoverty Effectiveness of Income Transfers

1988 • 3 citations

Income maintenance and social insurance: a survey

1987 • 2 citations

Employment and Training R&amp;D: Lessons Learned and Future Directions

1984 • 2 citations