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Inequality in Vietnamese Urban-Rural Living Standards, 1993-2006

Le, Huong - 2010

Using data from five waves of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, we find evidence of significant urban-rural expenditure inequality. Urban-rural inequality in Vietnam increased dramatically from 1993 to 1998, and peaked in 2002 before reducing slightly in 2004, and significantly in...

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The Gendered Crisis : Livelihoods and Mental Well-Being in India During Covid-19

Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Roy, Sanchari - 2023

urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points during …

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Does BMI Predict the Early Spatial Variation and Intensity of Covid-19 in Developing Countries? Evidence from India

Menon, Nidhiya - 2020

of India and finds that conditional on a range of individual, household, and regional characteristics, adult BMI …-risk populations in developing countries like India …

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Spatial Income Inequality in India, 1993-2011 : A District Level Decomposition

Azam, Mehtabul - 2016

role of individual and geographical factors in determining the level and the change in income inequality in India. We find … that between-state income differences account for the majority of between-district income inequality in rural India in 2011 …. However, in urban India within-state income differences explain most of the between- district inequality in 2011. We also find …

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Are Urban-Rural Welfare Differences Growing in India?

Azam, Mehtabul - 2017

, we examine the urban-rural welfare gap in India in 1983, 1993-94, 2004-05, and 2011-12 across the entire distribution … India Human Development Surveys …

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Are Girls the Fairer Sex in India? Revisiting Intra-Household Allocation of Education Expenditure

Azam, Mehtabul - 2011

India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas. In addition to the traditional …

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Child Welfare and Old-Age Security in Female Headed Households in Tanzania

Seebens, Holger - 2009

This paper is concerned with patterns of expenditure and child welfare among female headed (FHH) and male headed households (MHH) in Tanzania as well as with the underlying cause of potentially different patterns. I estimate semiparametric Engel curves to investigate household expenditure...

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Joining Panel Data with Cross-Sections for Efficiency Gains : An Application to a Consumption Equation For Nicaragua

Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2009

This paper explores how cross-sectional data can be exploited jointly with longitudinal data, in order to increase estimation efficiency while properly tackling the potential bias due to unobserved individual characteristics. We propose an innovative procedure and we show its implementation by...

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Relative Deprivation in Tanzania

Atsebi, Jean-Marc - 2019

This paper examines the importance of relative deprivation in Tanzania, a poor African country, using three waves of the Tanzanian National Panel Survey. We contribute to earlier literature in Africa by controlling for time persistent unobservable individual characteristics (panel data) and by...

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Transition from Plan to Market, Height and Well-Being

Adserà, Alícia - 2019

Using newly available data, we re-evaluate the impact of transition from plan to market in former communist countries on objective and subjective well-being. We find clear evidence of the high social cost of early transition reforms: cohorts born around the start of transition are shorter than...

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