, on the food share of expenditures and consumption of calories among poor households in rural Kenya. Our preferred …

Targeting is a core element of anti-poverty program design, with benefits typically targeted to those most "deprived … advantage of assistance? We explore this potential trade-off in the context of an NGO cash transfer program in Kenya, utilizing … ML approaches, could reach divergent conclusions. We discuss implications for the design of real-world anti-poverty …

How do aspirations influence investment decisions for people living in poverty? Does this change as peoples economic … in Kenya. The workshop substantially raises aspirations, investment, and living standards. But the workshop+cash produces … similar effects to cash alone, potentially because cash raises aspirations. Thus, helping people living in poverty set higher …

focus on Kenya, which has made significant strides in financial inclusion and development in recent years. We find a …

We assess the impacts of a randomized school-based deworming intervention in Kenya on the mortality of recipients …

. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …

patterns and gender differences in schooling attainment …

development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …