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Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use …
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Vietnam. After controlling for individual and regional characteristics, we find strong and consistent evidence that day … no heterogeneous effects by poverty status. An examination of the underlying mechanisms shows that reductions in income …
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We randomly assign more than 6,000 students from 150 primary schools in Bangladesh to work on math assignments in one of three settings: individually, in groups with random schoolmates, or in groups with friends. The groups consist of four people and are balanced by average cognitive ability and...
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Using a unique panel of household businesses for Vietnam, this paper sheds light on the links between households' and …
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recent economic research on the welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries, and explore their implications. We … begin with the conceptualisation and measurement of poverty, before sketching out some core features and approaches to the … welfare state and anti-poverty policies. We then focus on the central plank of the modern welfare state's efforts to address …
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This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI …) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of … households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly transient in rural Ethiopia. However, we find that the trend in …
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that absolute poverty declined dramatically in York between 1899 and 1936. We use poverty lines devised by contemporary … poverty among working households for the whole of the Britain between 1904 and 1937. We offer a number of pieces of … corroborative evidence that give support to our findings. We decompose the poverty reduction into the effects of two proximate …
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Combining nationally representative administrative and survey data with official proxy means testing models and coefficients, we evaluate Indonesia's three largest social programs. The setting for our evaluation is the launch of Indonesia's Unified Targeting system, an innovation developed to...
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This paper proposes a novel instrumental variable method for program evaluation that only requires a single cross-section of data on the spatial intensity of programs and outcomes. The instruments are derived from a simple theoretical model of government decision-making in which governments are...
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This paper studies the mental distress caused by bereavement. The largest emotional lossesare from the death of a spouse; the second-worst in severity are the losses from the death ofa child; the third-worst is the death of a parent...
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