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Handbook of Research on Gender and Economic Life

Handbook of Research on Gender and Economic Life Book Reviews analysis. The book is not, and cannot provide, the economic history of the War on Poverty. The War on Poverty included many programs that might have affected economic opportunities but are beyond the scope of this volume (e.g., legal services program) and do not lend themselves to an economic evaluation because their outcomes are diffi cult to quantify. A concluding chapter might have also discussed how this volume contributes to the literature on the history of the War on Poverty beyond economics and how it compares with what has been learnt from other disciplines that use different methodologies. Overall, Bailey and Danziger provide a careful economic assessment of the War on Poverty against its own broad objectives as laid out in 1964. They do so by (i) clarifying what the War on Poverty was, including its objectives and many programs; (ii) providing careful reviews of economic evaluations for a wide range of programs of the War on Poverty; and (iii) challenging the misconception that income is the metric for poverty research. The volume prompts US economists to broaden their poverty research by considering poverty as a multidimensional concept, with both material and non-material dimensions, as is increasingly http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Eastern Economic Journal Springer Journals

Handbook of Research on Gender and Economic Life

George, Erin E
Eastern Economic Journal , Volume 42 (2) – Jun 8, 2015
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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2015 by Eastern Economic Association
Subject
Economics; Economics, general; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
ISSN
0094-5056
eISSN
1939-4632
DOI
10.1057/eej.2015.16
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Abstract

Book Reviews analysis. The book is not, and cannot provide, the economic history of the War on Poverty. The War on Poverty included many programs that might have affected economic opportunities but are beyond the scope of this volume (e.g., legal services program) and do not lend themselves to an economic evaluation because their outcomes are diffi cult to quantify. A concluding chapter might have also discussed how this volume contributes to the literature on the history of the War on Poverty beyond economics and how it compares with what has been learnt from other disciplines that use different methodologies. Overall, Bailey and Danziger provide a careful economic assessment of the War on Poverty against its own broad objectives as laid out in 1964. They do so by (i) clarifying what the War on Poverty was, including its objectives and many programs; (ii) providing careful reviews of economic evaluations for a wide range of programs of the War on Poverty; and (iii) challenging the misconception that income is the metric for poverty research. The volume prompts US economists to broaden their poverty research by considering poverty as a multidimensional concept, with both material and non-material dimensions, as is increasingly

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Published: Jun 8, 2015

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