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Delving into the eye of the cyclone to quantify the cascading impacts of natural disasters on life satisfaction
Mitrou, Francis - 2024
The catastrophic effects of natural disasters on social and economic systems are well-documented; however, their impacts on individual life satisfaction remain insufficiently understood. This study pioneers a causal analysis of cyclones' impacts on Australians' life satisfaction, using local...
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Getting warmer: fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being
Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021
This paper uses data from Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the association between fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively measured biomarker data. Over and above the conventional...
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Influence of socio-demographic characteristics on different dimensions of household food insecurity in Montevideo, Uruguay
Rossi, Máximo; Ferre, Zuleika; Curutchet, María Rosa; … - 2017
Using a cross-sectional survey with a representative sample of households from the metropolitan area centered on Montevideo, we evaluate first the factorial structure of the Latin American & Caribbean Household Food Security Scale (ELCSA) with an exploratory factor analysis. Secondly, using a...
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Impacts of COVID-19 on Food Security: Panel Data Evidence from Nigeria
Amare, Mulubrhan; Abay, Kibrom A.; Tiberti, Luca; … - 2020
This paper combines pre-pandemic face-to-face survey data with follow up phone surveys collected in April-May 2020 to quantify the overall and differential impacts of COVID-19 on household food security, labor market participation and local food prices in Nigeria. We exploit spatial variation in...
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Children, Unhappiness and Family Finances
Blanchflower, David G.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2020
The common finding of a zero or negative correlation between the presence of children and parental well-being continues to generate research interest. We here consider international data, including well over one million observations on Europeans from eleven years of Eurobarometer surveys, and in...
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The quasi-market of employment services in Italy
Pastore, Francesco - 2019
This paper aims to study the shortcomings and merits of the first experiment of quasi-market in the provision of employment services: the Lombardy DUL (Dote Unica Lavoro). This system, which has inspired the 2015 national reform within the Jobs Act, has reactivated and revitalized the sector by...
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Natural hazards and internal migration: The role of transient versus permanent shocks
Pavel, Tanvir; Hasan, Syed; Halim, Nafisa; Mozumder, Pallab - 2018
We analyse internal migration triggered by natural disasters in Bangladesh. We conducted a survey in nine coastal districts and two major cities in Bangladesh to investigate whether floods and cyclones, which can be considered as transient shocks, affect interregional migration differently...
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Can Women’s Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India
Anand, Paul; Saxena, Swati; Gonzalez, Rolando; Dang, … - 2019
This paper investigates a women’s self-help group program with more than 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest rural areas of Northern India. The program has four streams of activity in micro-savings, agricultural enterprise training, health and nutrition education, and political...
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Decomposing poverty in hard times: Greece 2007-2016
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Kanavitsa, Eleni; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2020
population groups lost income in absolute terms, some were substantially more severely hit by the crisis. The paper examines the … effect of the crisis on the population shares, the mean incomes and the level of poverty of various population groups using … SILC data for the period 2007-2016. The population is partitioned according to four criteria: socioeconomic group of the …
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Trends and Drivers of Inequality: Recent Evidence from Vietnam
Dang, Trang Huyen; Nguyen, Cuong Viet; Phung, Tung Duc - 2022
This study provides evidence on the trends and drivers of inequality in Vietnam using Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys. We find that inequality, regardless of the choice of welfare indicators and inequality measurements, has been stable in Vietnam. Inequality in income or expenditure is...
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