We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with … idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and across space in an instrumented DiD methodology. We find that adopter …

microdata from Tanzania. We use idiosyncratic variation in rainfall to proxy for shocks on household income of rural households … negative rainfall shock from the long-term mean increases the incidence by about 13.1 per cent compared to the baseline. We …

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …

and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life … period and by the most conservative definition, over 120 million additional years were spent in poverty because of the … poverty burden, on the contrary, declines with per capita national incomes when a constant absolute poverty line is used, or …

effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of aggregate inequality and poverty using the data of EU-SILC for the …-economic groups rose. All poverty indicators suggest that poverty increased substantially, especially when "anchored" poverty lines … are used. Substantial changes are observed regarding the structure of poverty. Despite an increase in the population share …

effect of the crisis on the population shares, the mean incomes and the level of poverty of various population groups using … "anchored" poverty lines and distribution-sensitive poverty indices are employed the level of poverty rises to incredibly high … levels. When the poverty lines used are "relative", the poverty rate does not change substantially but when distribution …

long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal …) longitudinal poverty. The results reveal considerable differences across EU countries regarding both the level and the structure of … the population at high risk of chronic material deprivation and longitudinal poverty. Finally, each country's population …

avenues for further research. -- well-being ; multidimensional poverty ; distance function ; Catalonia …

fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the … energy policy instruments for uncovering the underlining mechanism via which fuel poverty may get "under the skin". …