About the Journal of Poverty and Public Policy

In 2018 the Institute for Social Concerns became the home of the Journal of Poverty and Public Policy, a journal of the Policy Studies Organization, published by Wiley. As an academic institute committed to better understanding and reducing poverty, the institute is a hub for intellectual engagement around the causes, consequences, and responses to poverty in local and global communities. The Journal of Poverty and Public Policy provides a platform for scholars around the world to share exemplary peer-reviewed research, enacting the institute’s aim to apply scholarship for the common good and address the preferential option for the poor.

Latest Issue

In “Financial Inclusion, Women Empowerment, and Informal Economy in Africa,” authors Folorunsho M. Ajide, James T. Dada, Mosab I. Tabash, and Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Faryan investigate the effect of women’s empowerment on the informal economy in Africa and the role of financial inclusion in the nexus between women’s empowerment and the informal economy, based on a panel data estimation of 39 African nations between 2004 and 2020.

In “Reframing Welfare Policy: Experimental Impacts on Public Perceptions,” Morgan A. Lowder describes how discourse surrounding the American welfare state frames the public assistance-reliant poor as behaviorally deviant and existing in a state of government dependency, while, conversely, employers are framed as emancipators, lifting those poor out of their dependency through labor discipline and social correction. Through a survey experiment carried out through the 2022 Cooperative Election Study, she assesses how this socially constructed dichotomy shapes mass attitudes toward public assistance.

In “Welfare Achievement in Benin: Exploring the Interaction Between Raw Cashew Nut Export Revenue and Industrialisation,” Armand Fréjuis Akpa investigates how revenue from agro-industrialized product exports can achieve welfare in Benin, drawing on data collected from 1991 to 2022.

In “Effect of Multidimensional Energy Poverty on the Productivity of Farming Households in Nigeria,” Ayodeji O. Ojo and Ayodeji Ogundeji investigate energy poverty’s effect on agricultural productivity using 2018/2019 General Household Survey (GHS) panel data.

Read the Journal

Current and past issues of the Journal of Poverty and Public Policy are available in the Wiley Online Library. The University of Notre Dame subscribes to the journal, as do 39,000 libraries around the world.

Submit an Article

Authors may submit an article according to the guidelines outlined here. The journal is published quarterly online. New submissions are welcome year round. 

Submit a Book Review

The Book Review Editor maintains a list of books available for review year round. To see the available books and process guidelines, click here.

Become a Reviewer

The journal welcomes reviewers with a wide range of expertise on poverty research. To become a reviewer for the Journal of Poverty and Public Policy, contact the Editor in Chief, Connie Snyder Mick, Ph.D., at cmick@nd.edu to express your interest and begin the acceptance process. 

Editors

Editor-in-Chief

Connie Snyder Mick is senior associate director, academic affairs, at the Institute for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame, where she directs the Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor. Her research addresses the role of writing in social change, the rhetoric of poverty, and the pedagogies of community engagement.

Managing Editor

Brianna McCaslin is assistant professor of instruction at the University of Texas Austin. She is most interested in questions of how we construct gendered, religious, and sexual selves through the use of ideologies and practices and the implications these self-concepts have for our interactions with others.

Book Review Editor

Virginia Parish Beard is professor of political science at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, USA. She specializes in comparative politics focused on Africa and public policy focused on poverty and housing.  

Editorial Board

M. Niaz Asadullah, Malaya University
Mukul G. Asher, University of Singapore, Amrita Center for Economics and Governance
Silvia Borzutsky, Carnegie Mellon University
Pamela Herd, Georgetown University
Philip Young P. Hong, Loyola University Chicago
Sonia Kapur, University of North Carolina Asheville
Stephanie Kelton, Stony Brook University
Chang Yee Kwan, National Chengchi University
Brij Mohan, Louisiana State University
Udaya R. Waglé, Western Michigan University
Catherine Weaver, University of Texas Austin
Nikolaos Zahariadis, Rhodes College