The Oxford handbook of the economics of poverty / edited by Philip N. Jefferson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction and overview / Philip N. Jefferson -- The alleviation of poverty : how far have we come? / Robert D. Plotnick -- Consumption and income poverty in the United States / Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan -- Poverty lines across the world / Martin Ravallion -- Theories of poverty : traditional explanations and new directions / Christopher K. Johnson and Patrick L. Mason -- Poverty and the labor market / Kevin Lang -- Employment in Black urban labor markets : problems and solutions / Judith K. Hellerstein and David Neumark -- Low-skilled immigrants and the US labor market / Brian Duncan and Stephen J. Trejo -- Poverty and low earnings in the developing world / Gary S. Fields -- Antipoverty programs for poor children and families / Janet Currie -- Education and the poor / Lisa Barrow and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach -- Poverty, health, and healthcare / Darrell J. Gaskin and Eric T. Roberts -- Geographical price variation, housing assistance, and poverty / Dirk W. Early and Edgar O. Olsen -- Distributions in motion : economic growth, inequality, and poverty dynamics / Francisco H.G. Ferreira -- Is poverty incompatible with asset accumulation? / Signe-Mary McKernan, Caroline Ratcliffe, and Trina Williams Shanks -- Poverty transitions / Ann Huff Stevens -- Macroeconomic fluctuations and poverty / Philip N. Jefferson and Kunhee Kim -- Obesity, poverty, and the ability to pay for calories / Susan L. Averett -- Environmental justice : do poor and minority populations face more hazards? / Wayne B. Gray, Ronald J. Shadbegian, and Ann Wolverton -- Female trust in government and gender income inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa / Juliet U. Elu and Gregory N. Price -- Crime, incarceration, and poverty / Steven Raphael -- Payday lending : new research and the big question / John P. Caskey -- An assessment of the effectiveness of antipoverty programs in the United States / Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Robert Moffitt, and John Karl Scholz -- Are economists in over their heads? / Kevin S. O'Neil and Marta Tienda -- Antipoverty policy : the role of individualist and structural perspectives / William A. Darity, Jr., Mary Lopez, Olugbenga Ajilore, and Leslie Wallace -- A new statistic : the US Census Bureau's supplemental poverty measure / Philip N. Jefferson.