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Panel data are rarely available for developing countries. Departing from traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with as few as two survey rounds and produces point...
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poverty likelihood and poverty gap, an increase in the probability of employment and an increase in wages. Our results provide … the old system. We also provide evidence of higher wages for select participants. We do not find any consistent evidence …
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We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation provides identifying variation. We find no effects of the hardship...
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Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey, 2020), we provide evidence on the effects of ICT skills on labor market outcomes and household welfare as measured by per capita expenditure. We study the effects both at the...
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income shocks to consumption. Log-earnings are the sum of a general Markovian persistent component and a transitory …. Consumption is modeled as an age-dependent nonlinear function of assets and the two earnings components. We establish the … nonparametric identification of the nonlinear earnings process and the consumption policy rule. Exploiting the enhanced consumption …
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This paper examines the overall impact of exports while accounting for supply chain linkages on local labor market outcomes in Egypt between 2007 and 2018. We assess the effects not only on directly exporting industries but also on industries indirectly affected by rising export demand....
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local labor market effects (wages and informality) and estimates from wage equations that reflect the predictions from long … of sector and geography. Wages increased and informality decreased in sub-districts more exposed to the export shock …
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trade restrictiveness indices for household consumption items and industry affiliations using both tariffs and the ad … raises the cost of consumption for poorer households, while it is progressive through the earnings channel in urban areas and …
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studies the impact of trade on wages and worker training. Wages and training fell for workers employed in sectors where the …
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What are the impacts of expanding mobile broadband coverage on poverty, household consumption and labor market outcomes … positive effect on total household consumption and poverty reduction, driven by positive impacts on labor market outcomes …
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