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Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity : The Experience of Afghan Households
D'Souza, Anna - 2012
Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...
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The Effect of Gender-Targeted Conditional Cash Transfers on Household Expenditures : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Armand, Alex - 2016
This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the structure of household expenditures on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of Macedonia, offering cash transfers to poor households, conditional on having their children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984861
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Who and for How Long? An Empirical Analysis of the Consumers' Response to Red Meat Warning
Carrieri, Vincenzo; Principe, Francesco - 2021
Do health warnings change consumer behaviour? And for how long? We address these questions by studying the effects of the 2015 WHO's warning about the carcinogenic effect of red meat consumption. We use high-frequency data and implement a difference-in-difference-in-differences model which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314936
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Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks
De Weerdt, Joachim - 2014
This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of misperception of income among all pairs of households belonging to the same network. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047878
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Oportunidades : Program Effect on Consumption, Low Participation, and Methodological Issues
Angelucci, Manuela - 2009
In this paper we estimate the effect of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program, Oportunidades, on consumption, and we explore some issues related to participation to the program and to the estimation of treatment effects. We discuss the comparability of treatment and control areas,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155471
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The Welfare Impact of Price Changes on Household Welfare and Inequality 1999-2010
Loughrey, Jason - 2011
This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland … component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function. The efficiency component includes the behavioural response to price … an inequality measure and this is combined with the Cost of Living Index to produce an overall welfare measure. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124494
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Does Promoting School Attendance Reduce Child Labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso's BRIGHT Project
de Hoop, Jacobus - 2012
Using data from BRIGHT, an integrated program that aims to improve school participation in rural communities in Burkina Faso, we investigate the impact of school subsidies and increased access to education on child work. Regression discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104963
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Africa's Education Enigma? The Nigerian Story
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2021
In the last two decades, the social and economic benefits of formal education in Sub-Saharan Africa have been debated. Anecdotal evidence points to low returns to education in Africa. Unfortunately, there is limited econometric evidence to support these claims at the micro level. In this study,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318289
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Mobile Internet Adoption in West Africa
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Ochoa, Rogelio; Lach, Samantha - 2021
Mobile broadband internet is the main technology through which individuals access the internet in developing countries. Understanding the barriers to broadband adoption is thus a priority in designing policies aiming to expand access and close the digital divide across socioeconomic groups and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243104
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Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight : Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism
Dragone, Davide - 2015
availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how novel food products alter the optimal consumption bundle and welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023791