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calculated the probability of a child being stunted or underweight as our measure of malnutrition among children aged 0–59 months … and piped water, and negative and significant for well water. The probabilities of a child being stunted or underweight …. In line with this, the probability of a child being stunted or underweight is negative and significantly related to …
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household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this …
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-household inequalities. Besides, by definition, households containing both a female and a male cannot contribute to a gender gap, so gender … differentials cannot be estimated. But, the Sustainable Development Goals have put special emphasis on gender equality along their … targets; therefore, new measures able to capture the gender differences are needed. Consequently, in this paper, we propose an …
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In this paper, considering the overarching concern of the 2030 sustainable development agenda, "leaving no one behind", and targets 1.2 and 10.1 of the SDGs, we stress that the mainstream approach to multidimensional poverty measurement in developing countries faces some deficiencies to properly...
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Conventional approaches to the measurement of income-poverty require the ability to identify the poor by reference to a specified poverty line. On the face of it, it may appear to be unproblematic to specify such a poverty line. There are, however, analytical and conceptual difficulties entailed...
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Although empowerment is seen as intrinsically important and instrumentally valuable to escape poverty, there is very little research on the empirical drivers of empowerment. Using custom-made household-level information and using advanced econometric techniques that also correct for endogeneity,...
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In this paper we develop a multidimensional poverty measure that attempts to capture absolute poverty in the functioning space. As suggested by Sen, if the measure aims to be absolute in the functioning space, it needs to be relative in the resource space. To generate a relative measure, this...
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We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The current benchmark version of the dataset...
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This paper asks whether income mobility in South Africa over the last decade has indeed been as impressive as currently thought. Using new national panel data (NIDS), substantial measurement error in reported income data is found, which is further corroborated by a provincial income data panel...
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analyzes gender-specific impacts as well as anticipation and adaptation to major life and labor market events. We focus on six … habituation. Yet, the results show striking gender-specific differences particularly regarding the impact of events related to … intra-household bargaining and the gender identity hypothesis. The studied labor market events point to a gender segregated …
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