, showing a much more nuanced picture of female labor force participation than one might expect. Recent trends in employment and … factors drawing women into the labor force at attractive employment and pay conditions. This affects, by 2004, only a small …

income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross … measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of …-survey imputations and administrative and survey data collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Jordan. Employing …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare … from those based on survey consumption data. This result is robust to different poverty lines, sets of regressors, and …. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of …

) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of … find that household size matters in consumption poverty while we do not find significant effects on multidimensional … poverty. Amongst the shocks, drought shock is found to affect consumption poverty but not multidimensional poverty. This …

This paper is the first to provide evidence about the relationship between bride price payments and fertility decisions … in the African context. Remarkably, the results show that bride price payments reduce fertility pressure, with a woman … reducing her number of children by 0.5 at the mean bride price. The results are robust to different tests that we conduct to …

Parents who experience poverty and who want to provide their children with an escape route can be expected to encourage … controlling for standard determinants of attitudes towards schooling, such as poverty, unemployment, labor market discrimination …