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Gone with the Storm : Rainfall Shocks and Household Well-Being in Guatemala

Baez, Javier E. - 2015

effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6%, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage points …, issues of measurement error, and different samples. The negative effects of the storm partly explain the increase in poverty …

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Population Growth and Multiple Equilibria : Inferences from a Modified Ramsey Model

Lehmijoki, Ulla - 2011

, poverty traps, and demography-driven cycles. The model is calibrated for global data to explore the demographic conditions …

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Economic Development and the Organisation of Labour : Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project

Bandiera, Oriana; Elsayed, Ahmed; Heil, Anton; Smurra, … - 2022

The Jobs of the World Project is a public resource designed to enable research on jobs and poverty across and within … how disparities at the micro level lead to a misuse of human potential that links individual poverty to national income …

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Rapid Economic Growth But Rising Poverty Segregation : Will Vietnam Meet the Sdgs for Equitable Development?

Dang, Hai-Anh; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Do Minh; Cuong Viet … - 2023

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … segregated in certain provinces. We find beneficial impact of economic growth on poverty reduction, but this can depend on …

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The Long-Term Determinants of Female HIV Infection in Africa : The Slave Trade, Polygyny, and Sexual Behavior

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015

We study the long-term determinants of the high rates of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among women, with a focus on family structure and sexual behavior as shaped by the demographic shock following the transatlantic slave trade. First we show that, in clusters where polygyny...

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A Theory of Child Targeting

Bargain, Olivier - 2007

more cost effective than cash transfers in alleviating child poverty …

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Life Cycle Employment and Fertility Across Institutional Environments

Sauer, Robert M. - 2006

In this paper, we formulate a dynamic utility maximization model of female labor force participation and fertility choices and estimate approximate decision rules using data on married women in Italy, Spain and France. The pattern of estimated state dependence effects across countries is...

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Do Generous Parental Leave Policies Help Top Female Earners?

Corekcioglu, Gozde - 2020

Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women's careers around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal employer-employee matched data for the entire Norwegian...

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Paid Parental Leave and Families' Living Arrangements

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2018

We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Combining a regression discontinuity with a difference-in-differences design, we find...

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Parental Leave, Household Specialization and Children's Well-Being

Canaan, Serena - 2019

Many countries offer new parents long periods of paid leave. Proponents argue that parental leave programs can reduce gender gaps in the labor market, support marital stability and promote children's well-being. In this paper, I show that lengthy leaves can instead work against several of these...

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