global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative household … by household size but by the square-root of household size. While the regional profile of extreme poverty is robust to …Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in …

microdata from Tanzania. We use idiosyncratic variation in rainfall to proxy for shocks on household income of rural households …In this paper, we study the effect of household shocks on the incidence of domestic violence using household survey … make use of the rich information from the household survey to investigate the underlying pathways …

Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of misperception of income among all pairs of households …

Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty … poverty gradient from rural to town to city will exist as an equilibrium phenomenon. We then address the policy question and … show how the answer depends on the migration response, where the poverty line lies relative to incomes in the three …

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 … intergenerational transmission of poverty …

avoid vulnerability. Using the panel data survey for the Kagera region of Tanzania, we select children who were 7 to 15 … than ten to twenty hours per week. This result is driven by girls. As for types of child labor, work on the household farm …

This paper examines the importance of relative deprivation in Tanzania, a poor African country, using three waves of … literature, we find strong evidence of relative deprivation in financial satisfaction of all individuals in Tanzania, and …

What are the impacts of expanding mobile broadband coverage on poverty, household consumption and labor market outcomes … positive effect on total household consumption and poverty reduction, driven by positive impacts on labor market outcomes … paper applies a difference-in-differences estimation using panel household survey data combined with geospatial information …

Employment helps reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a … conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply …

Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction …-term impact on food security, household savings, assets and participation in microfinance. Participant women are less likely to be …