transmission. We offer the first study that examines the effects of the COVID-19-induced lockdown on various employment outcomes … rich individual-level data from the quarterly Labor Force Surveys. We find that the lockdown increases the unemployment … rate, the temporary layoff rate, and decreases the quality of employment. It also reduces workers' numbers of working hours …

household consumption data are unavailable or missing. These contexts range from completely missing and partially missing … consumption data in cross sectional household surveys, to missing panel household data. We focus on methods that aim to compare …

unavailable household consumption data. We offer a review of alternative imputation methods that have been employed to provide …

Household consumption data are often unavailable, not fully collected, or incomparable over time in poorer countries … utility expenditures to a basic imputation model with household-level demographic and employment variables provides accurate …

Survey data on household consumption are often unavailable or incomparable over time in many low- and middle … demonstrating that survey-to-survey imputation can fill consumption data gaps and provide low-cost and reliable poverty estimates …. Basic imputation models featuring utility expenditures, together with a modest set of predictors on demographics, employment …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or …-poverty rates, as well as mean consumption levels and the entire consumption distribution. Analyzing 22 multi-topic household …-level demographic, employment, and asset variables could improve the probability of imputation accuracy between 0.1 and 0.4. Adding …