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, and in particular to sea-level rise and its associated risks. We construct poverty and hardship profiles for households on …
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Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of … a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor …
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pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also show that the household formation responses draw some unemployed … to getaccess to resources without support from unemployment compensation. Analysing a household survey from 1995, we find … that the household formation response of the unemployed is the critical way in which they assure access to resources. In …
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Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices … consumption survey data. We propose an alternative approach that identifies poverty from consumer behaviour, based on the notion … higher levels of poverty in eastern India, and generally, smaller reductions in poverty from 2005 to 2010. Our poverty …
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financial inclusion in Pune, a large city of India based on a household survey at an identified slum area. Empirical findings of …
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This paper proposes three theoretical mechanisms through which polygyny may be related to social unrest. The mechanisms are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic,...
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This paper proposes three theoretical mechanisms through which polygyny may be related to social unrest. The mechanisms are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013326493
Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...
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against women. We find that husband's education lowers the probability of suffering physical, emotional and economic violence … behaviours such as drinking, gambling, and drug abuse. We also find that women whose mothers or whose husbands' mothers …
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, single women have lower BMIs than women in other household relationships. While causal mechanisms may have changed over time … related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height …, there is a positive relationship between BMIs and household size. …
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