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We study how income shock affect due to weather shock causally impacts the birth outcomes. We selected households depended directly on agriculture due to their extreme vulnerability to temperature and rainfall shocks. We find large efficiency loss attributed to weather shock for major food crops...
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implemented and analyzed a web-based rapid assessment survey immediately after the removal of lockdown measures in Vietnam, a …
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Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring these insights into the debates about comparative support for government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. We fill in this gap by analyzing rich survey data from six countries...
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growth, poverty, and inequality. We find that typical survey measures of consumption and income may exaggerate poverty …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, much needs to be learnt on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We contribute new theoretical and empirical evidence on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on different income groups in a multi-country...
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Various challenges are thought to render female-headed households (FHHs) vulnerable to poverty in the Arab region. Yet …, previous studies have mixed results and the absence of household panel survey data hinders analysis of poverty dynamics. We … Tunisia. We find that the definition of FHHs matters for measuring poverty levels and dynamics. Most types of FHHs are less …
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Very few studies have examined the impacts of both climate change and air pollution on student education outcomes, particularly in a developing country setting. Analyzing a rich database consisting of household and school surveys, test scores, and temperature and air pollution data over the past...
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Vietnam is widely praised for its successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The country has had an extremely low … for Vietnam. We employ difference-in-differences econometric models to estimate the causal effects of the lockdown, using …
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direct investment and large firms is a new channel through which the war legacy impedes local development in Vietnam. A 1 …
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In this study, we examine the impact of minimum wages in Vietnam using individual-level data from the 2012-2020 annual …
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