, if any, evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of … subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher temperature to increase poverty. This finding is robust to various model ….1 percent increase in the headcount poverty rate, using the US$ 1.90 daily poverty threshold. Regional heterogeneity exists …

warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies … consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … poverty than transient poverty. The results are robust to different model specifications and measures of chronic poverty and …

This study evaluates the impact of depression treatment on economic behavior in Karnataka, India. We cross … through which depression may perpetuate poverty. …

poverty compared to Hindus, upper caste groups, and urban households. These findings suggest inequality in India is likely to …We examine economic mobility in India while rigorously accounting for measurement error. Such an analysis is imperative … to fully understand the welfare effects of the rise in inequality that has occurred in India over the past few decades …

are greater among urban households. However, more poor people in India live in villages, so rural poverty impacts are … RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a …

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households … in the poverty rates between the scheduled castes (or tribes) and non-scheduled households into a part explained by the …

the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct …-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help …

terms, mostly due to a lack of data. This descriptive paper uses first-hand survey data from southern India disaggregated by … sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and … women's behavior is constrained by family affiliation, poverty level and caste, all of which affects men much less. Last, in …