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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy
Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in … Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822811
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Food Security and Wheat Prices in Afghanistan: A Distribution-Sensitive Analysis of Household-Level Impacts
D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR) estimator, based on influence functions to examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542045
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Rising Food Prices and Household Welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008
Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Fruttero, Anna; Leite, Phillippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
percent urban, higher food prices still led to a greater incidence and depth of poverty at the national level. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021889
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Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The Experience of Afghan Households
D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552949
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010778775
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Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia
Brown, J. David; Earle, John; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied upon. We analyze microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822393
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The Post-Unification German Labor Market
Bonin, Holger; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
This study surveys the development of the East German labor market after the unification of Germany. We explain that in the last decade, East Germans were faced with very high levels of joblessness that considering labor market exits and active labor market policy, are only partly reported as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763806
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Participation Behavior of East German Women after German Unification
Bonin, Holger; Euwals, Rob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
The paper studies the determinants of labor force participation by East German women after unification. To isolate the role of preferences on labor force participation from individual characteristics, we develop a panel data model that simultaneously explains participation, employment and wages....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566812
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The Effects of "Girl-Friendly" Schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Faso
Kazianga, Harounan; Levy, Dan; Linden, Leigh L.; Sloan, Matt - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We evaluate the causal effects of a program that constructed high quality "girl-friendly" primary schools in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design 2.5 years after the program started. We find that the program increased enrollment of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 by 20...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279240
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Social Divisions in School Participation and Attainment in India: 1983-2004
Asadullah, Niaz; Kambhampati, Uma; López Bóo, Florencia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This study documents the size and nature of "Hindu-Muslim" and "boy-girl" gaps in children's school participation and attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the National Sample Survey suggest that considerable progress has been made in decreasing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646282