We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with … intergenerational transmission of poverty. …

. Survey-to-survey imputation has been increasingly employed to address these data gaps for poverty measurement, but its … effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine existing poverty imputation models using 14 multi-topic household … surveys conducted over the past decade in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam. We find that adding household …

-income countries. Based on a unique randomized survey experiment implemented in Tanzania, this study offers new and rigorous evidence … demonstrating that survey-to-survey imputation can fill consumption data gaps and provide low-cost and reliable poverty estimates …; the choice of base surveys for estimating the imputation model; different poverty lines; and alternative (quarterly or …

This paper examines the importance of relative deprivation in Tanzania, a poor African country, using three waves of … literature, we find strong evidence of relative deprivation in financial satisfaction of all individuals in Tanzania, and …

avoid vulnerability. Using the panel data survey for the Kagera region of Tanzania, we select children who were 7 to 15 …

What are the impacts of expanding mobile broadband coverage on poverty, household consumption and labor market outcomes … on the rollout of mobile broadband coverage in Tanzania. The results reveal that being covered by 3G networks has a large … positive effect on total household consumption and poverty reduction, driven by positive impacts on labor market outcomes …

greater rates of poverty decline and gains in wages and employment. We extend this literature by estimating the impact of …

In 2013, Tanzania introduced "Big Results Now in Education", a low-stakes accountability program that published both …