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When distance drives destination, towns can stimulate development

De Weerdt, Joachim; Christiaensen, Luc J.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2021

While city migrants see their welfare increase much more than those moving to towns, many more rural-urban migrants end up in towns. This phenomenon, documented in detail in Kagera, Tanzania, begs the question why migrants move to seemingly suboptimal destinations. Using an 18-year panel of...

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Secondary towns and poverty reduction : refocusing the urbanization agenda

Christiaensen, Luc J.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2017

This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment towards secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance. Of course the hypothesis raises many questions. What exactly is the dichotomy of secondary towns versus big...

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Forced off farm? : labor allocation response to land requisition in rural China

Shuang Ma; Mu, Ren - 2017

Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate …

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Young women in cities

Koh, Yumi; Li, Jing; Wu, Yifan; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Hanzhe - 2023

Young women outnumber young men in cities in many countries during periods of economic growth and urbanization. This … cities when urbanization creates more economic opportunities and an abundance of high-income marriage-age men. …

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Vulnerability to poverty : Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis

Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John S.; … - 2016

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …

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Deconstructing informality : a response to vulnerability or an optimal choice?

Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon; Liang, Zhe - 2016

The rapid growth of informal employment in China in recent decades has attracted attention, but to understand its implications, the concept of informality must be deconstructed. We reclassify employment status into three categories: salaried workers who have long-term contracts; the self-employed;...

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Climate vulnerability, communities' resilience and child labour

Boutin, Delphine - 2014

This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and … intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and … that climate vulnerability negatively affects child labour incidence and intensity, while has no significant impact on …

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COVID-19, race, and redlining

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020

Discussion on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on African Americans has been at center stage since the outbreak of the epidemic in the United States. To present day, however, lack of race-disaggregated individual data has prevented a rigorous assessment of the extent of this phenomenon...

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Health and nody mass index : no simple relationship

Hübler, Olaf - 2017

Many studies have shown that obesity is a serious health problem for our society. Empirical analyses often neglect a number of methodological issues and relevant influences on health. This paper investigates empirically whether neglecting these items leads to systematically different estimates....

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Life satisfaction, subjective wealth, and adaptation to vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya; Lokshin, Michael - 2020

We offer the first study on vulnerability adaptation to subjective well-being, using rich panel data over the past two … decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … vulnerability spells being associated with more negative subjective welfare. Similar results hold for other outcomes including …

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