The literature on poverty convergence is sparse and much of the empirical evidence relies on Ravallion (2012) who found … a lack of poverty convergence across some ninety Less Developed Countries (LDCs) during 1977-2007. This paper revisits … cross-country poverty convergence using data from the same sources but an extended period, i.e. 1977-2014. We find that …

We use the 2012-2018 China Family Panel Studies data to examine the relationship between household energy poverty and … probability of being an entrepreneur. The results are robust to various checks, including alternative measures of energy poverty … estimation methods and potential omitted variable bias. We also explore the channels through which energy poverty influences …

household wealth, reduced child mortality, and female basic education are crucial for fertility reductions. Yet, our analysis …, increased female secondary education, and the expansion of health insurance coverage. Urbanization appears to have a limited, if …

gender, family composition, education, age, pre-COVID-19 industry of work, and between the rural and urban sector. We link … likely to lose their job. A year after the onset of the pandemic, these inequalities disappeared while education became the … main predictor of joblessness. We find significant rural/urban, age, and education gradients in household level income loss …

We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … intergenerational transmission of poverty …

Using the 2012-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we investigate the impact of energy poverty (EP) on …