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Evaluating the long-run impact of an innovative anti-poverty program : evidence using household panel data

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Ara, Jinnat - 2016

Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction – Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR – TUP) programme of BRAC, we investigate whether a one-off transfer of livestock assets improves well-being of the very poor women in Bangladesh....

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Can agricultural extension and input support be discontinued? : evidence from a randomized phaseout in Uganda

Fishman, Ram; Smith, Stephen C.; Bobić, Vida; … - 2019

A society that believes wealth to be determined by random "luck", rather than by merit, demands more redistribution. We present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009, which hit a large area of Central Italy through a series of...

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Small-scale farming and food security : the enabling role of cash transfers in South Africa's former homelands

Fintel, Dieter von; Pienaar, Louw - 2016

, given the context of the 1913 and 1936 Land Acts that constrained this form of livelihood in former apartheid homelands …

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Agricultural extension and technology adoption for food security : evidence from Uganda

Pan, Yao; Smith, Stephen C.; Sulaiman, Munshi - 2015

This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers...

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Financial literacy and food security in extremely vulnerable households

Millimet, Daniel L.; McDonough, Ian K.; Fomby, Thomas B. - 2015

Food insecurity is one of the most, if not the most, significant, nutrition-related public health issue confronted in the US. Unfortunately, we know very little about the determinants of food security except that it is not synonymous with poverty. Many households above the poverty line are food...

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Do households where women own land fare better for food security? : evidence for Tanzania

Burrone, Sara; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2023

This paper aims to study the relationship between women's land ownership and household food security in Tanzania, using … (HDDS) as a measure of food security, and we categorize land ownership by gender and whether it is solely or jointly owned … disentangle the effects of women's land ownership across households with varying levels of dependence on home-produced food. The …

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Food aid and violent conflict : a review of literature

Koppenberg, Maximilian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Hirsch, Stefan - 2023

We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict...

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Improving women's mental health during a pandemic

O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Caro, Luis Pinedo - 2021

In low-income settings, women are vulnerable to the psychological distress caused by the social and economic impact of large-scale shocks (e.g., pandemics, natural disasters, political). This paper evaluates a randomized over-the-phone counseling intervention aimed at mitigating the mental...

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Job loss and food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic

Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani - 2021

Nutritious eating habits contribute to a stronger immune system necessary for prevention and easier recovery from illnesses. A job loss, experienced by millions of Americans during the Covid-19 pandemic, is expected to negatively affect food security of families. This research explores the...

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Civil war, famine and the persistence of human capital: evidence from Tajikistan

Grogan, Louise Anne - 2021

The dissolution of the Soviet Union and 1992-96 Tajik civil war resulted in huge human and economic losses. Nevertheless, contemporary data suggest the persistence of investments in human capital in the region most affected by famine and least favoured since the cessation of hostilities,...

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