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Oportunidades : program effect on consumption, low participation, and methodological issues
Angelucci, Manuela; Attanasio, Orazio P. - 2009
In this paper we estimate the effect of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program, Oportunidades, on consumption, and we explore some issues related to participation to the program and to the estimation of treatment effects. We discuss the comparability of treatment and control areas,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902804
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Legal status and deprivation in India's urban slums : an analysis of two decades of national sample survey data
Nolan, Laura B.; Bloom, David E.; Subbaraman, Ramnath - 2017
services, thereby increasing vulnerability to poor health outcomes. To quantify deprivation for each slum, we construct a basic … deprivation the longer a slum has been notified. In addition, data from the 2012 NSS show that, despite suffering from greater … deprivation, non-notified slums were much less likely to receive financial aid from government slum improvement schemes. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631522
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Family migration : a vehicle of child morbidity in the informal settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?
Konseiga, Adama (contributor) - 2008
Parental migration is often found to be negatively correlated with child health in Africa, yet the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. The paper uses a dataset that provides information from the respondent parent on child morbidity both in the rural and urban settings. Households first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003729414
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Planning ahead for better neighborhoods : long run evidence from Tanzania
Michaels, Guy; Nigmatulina, Dzhamilya; Rauch, Ferdinand; … - 2017
What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build their own homes? We study "Sites and Services" projects implemented in seven Tanzanian cities during the 1970s and 1980s, half of which provided infrastructure in previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732097
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Rank, income and income inequality in urban China
Gustafsson, Björn (contributor); Ding, Sai (contributor) - 2008
While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others attain middle rank including middle rank of professional and cadre (Kezhang). This aspect of the Chinese labor force has attracted surprisingly little attention in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778857
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Is there a gap in the gap? : regional differences in the gender pay gap
Hirsch, Boris; König, Marion; Möller, Joachim - 2009
In this paper, we investigate regional differences in the gender pay gap both theoretically and empirically. Within a spatial oligopsony model, we show that more densely populated labour markets are more competitive and constrain employers' ability to discriminate against women. Utilising a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003863176
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Inequality in Vietnamese urban-rural living standards, 1993 - 2006
Le, Huong Thu; Booth, Alison L. - 2010
Using data from five waves of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, we find evidence of significant urban-rural expenditure inequality. Urban-rural inequality in Vietnam increased dramatically from 1993 to 1998, and peaked in 2002 before reducing slightly in 2004, and significantly in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975202
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Resources and standards in urban schools
Machin, Stephen (contributor); McNally, Sandra (contributor) - 2007
Despite being central to government education policy in many countries, there remains considerable debate about whether resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by considering an English education policy initiative Excellence in Cities which has been a flagship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003538935
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Sin city?
Gautier, Pieter (contributor); Svarer, Michael (contributor) - 2007
Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? We investigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners by moving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danish couples. We find that of the couples who married in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003536126
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Why are household incomes more unequally distributed in China than in Russia?
Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila - 2010
Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in urban areas in China are important reasons for this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009313315