Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 537
Cover Image
The effects of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children's nutrition and education
Dodlova, Marina; Escobar Carias, Michelle; Grimm, Michael - 2023
We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children’s nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … intensity data with four waves of the Haiti Demographic Health Survey, two administered before and two after the earthquake. We … find lasting negative impacts of the earthquake on children's stunting and wasting as well as on school enrolment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286505
Cover Image
Gone with the storm : rainfall shocks and household well-being in Guatemala
Baez, Javier E.; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Genoni, Maria Eugenia - 2015
effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6%, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage points …, issues of measurement error, and different samples. The negative effects of the storm partly explain the increase in poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472574
Cover Image
Does development reduce migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423766
Cover Image
The emigration life cycle: how development shapes emigration from poor countries
Clemens, Michael A. - 2020
Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita than in either chronically poor countries or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269072
Cover Image
Shared prosperity : concepts, data, and some policy examples
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Galasso, Emanuela; Negre, Mario - 2018
indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871444
Cover Image
The capability threshold : re-examining the definition of the middle class in an unequal developing country
Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; Berg, Servaas van der - 2015
In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388311
Cover Image
Population growth and multiple equilibria : inferences from a modified Ramsey model
Lehmijoki, Ulla - 2011
, poverty traps, and demography-driven cycles. The model is calibrated for global data to explore the demographic conditions … equilibria ; poverty traps ; calibrations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130124
Cover Image
Australia: the miracle economy
Junankar, Pramod N. - 2013
Most of the countries of the OECD are still suffering from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) (or as the Americans call it the Great Recession), but the Australian economy appears to be powering ahead. It is a miracle economy! Unlike most of the OECD countries, Australia did not even have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774315
Cover Image
Growing up in a recession : beliefs and the macroeconomy
Giuliano, Paola; Spilimbergo, Antonio - 2009
Do generations growing up during recessions have different socio-economic beliefs than generations growing up in good times? We study the relationship between recessions and beliefs by matching macroeconomic shocks during early adulthood with self-reported answers from the General Social Survey....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884097
Cover Image
On the effects of wildfires on poverty in Bolivia
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Puerta-Cuartas, Alejandro; … - 2024
This paper examines the impact of severe wildfire events on Bolivia's poverty and labor market outcomes. We use a panel … Interactive Fixed Effects Counterfactual Estimator, we estimate the causal effects of severe wildfire events on poverty, household … per-capita income, and the agricultural sector. We find a significant short-term increase in poverty explained by a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529844