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Poverty Imputation in Contexts without Consumption Data: A Revisit with Further Refinements

Dang, Hai-Anh; Kilic, Talip; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2023

surveys conducted over the past decade in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam. We find that adding household … variables improves accuracy, as does including additional community-level predictors (available from data in Vietnam) related to …

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Imputing Poverty Indicators without Consumption Data: An Exploratory Analysis

Dang, Hai-Anh; Kilic, Talip; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2024

surveys conducted over the past decade in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam, we find encouraging …

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Alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms: Impacts on routine preventative health clinic visits in Burkina Faso

Akresh, Richard; de Walque, Damien; Kazianga, Harounan - 2012

We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or...

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Household access to microcredit and children's food security in rural Malawi: a gender perspective

Hazarika, Gautam; Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb - 2008

Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women …'s relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to …

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Gender Differences in the Effects of Vocational Training: Constraints on Women and Drop-Out Behavior

Cho, Yoonyoung; Kalomba, Davie; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; … - 2013

We provide experimental evidence on the effects of vocational and entrepreneurial training for Malawian youth, in an environment where access to schooling and formal sector employment is extremely low. We track a large fraction of program drop-outs - a common phenomenon in the training...

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Gender Differences in the Effects of Vocational Training: Constraints on Women and Drop-Out Behavior

Cho, Yoon Y.; Kalomba, Davie; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Household Access to Microcredit and Children's Food Security in Rural Malawi: A Gender Perspective

Hazarika, Gautam; Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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Is the Allocation of Time Gender Sensitive to Food Price Changes? An Investigation of Hours of Work in Uganda

Campus, Daniela; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2016

Uganda National Household Survey by adopting a Tobit-hybrid model. Our results show that gender differentials in the intra …

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Growth with Equity: Income Inequality in Vietnam, 2002–14

Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; McCaig, Brian - 2016

We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household …

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Household Entrepreneurship and Social Networks: Panel Data Evidence from Vietnam

Nguyen, Huu Chi; Nordman, Christophe Jalil - 2017

Using a unique panel of household businesses for Vietnam, this paper sheds light on the links between households' and …

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