Research on neighbourhood effects indicates that neighbourhood poverty is related to educational outcomes of youth … examine the timing and duration of exposure to poverty in neighbourhood and school contexts between ages 10 and 16, to predict … educational achievement of adolescents at age 16. Our results indicate that neighbourhood poverty impacts on educational …

's role in determining their efficacy. First, exploiting an RD design, we show that receipt of information increased household … rice receipts by 30 percentage points. Second, we show that approximately half of the effect is driven by household head … document that household heads' literacy gained during childhood was pivotal for their households subsequently receiving their …

. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …

poverty. Many households above the poverty line are food insecure; many below are not. We investigate a lack of financial … literacy as a potential salient determinant of household-level food security. In light of the recent financial crisis and the …

Employment helps reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a … conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply …