We derive a model in which firms operate in an epidemic environment and internalize infections among their employees in … the workplace. The model is calibrated to fit the properties of the Covid-19 epidemic. We show that firms have incentives …

This paper examines the impact of the SARS epidemic in 2003 on intergenerational mobility in China. Using large cross …-city variation in SARS cases, our triple difference-in-differences estimates suggest that the SARS epidemic significantly increases … leads to a 9.3 percent increase in the maternal intergeneration transmission coefficient. The effect of the SARS epidemic is …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

out of poverty have been recorded in a wide array of literature, the employment outcome of participating in a microcredit … program as a pathway to poverty reduction has been studied much less. Using two waves of longitudinal data on over 2000 … participants and raised the potential for income growth that contributed to poverty reduction. …

effect approach, our results suggest that recent and long term exposure to conflict increased poverty incidence, poverty gap … and poverty severity in Nigeria. …

There is an increasingly stronger demand for more frequent and accurate poverty estimates, despite the oftentimes … poverty estimates in such contexts. These range from estimates on a nonmonetary basis, estimates for specific project … targeting or tracking trends at the national level, to estimates at a more disaggregated level, as well as estimates of poverty …