survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent …

randomized survey experiment in Tanzania focusing on two survey aspects: different questionnaire design to classify children work …

's working hours. Analysis using Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) data on the Kagera region in Tanzania lend support to …

We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with … intergenerational transmission of poverty. …

-income countries. Based on a unique randomized survey experiment implemented in Tanzania, this study offers new and rigorous evidence … demonstrating that survey-to-survey imputation can fill consumption data gaps and provide low-cost and reliable poverty estimates …; the choice of base surveys for estimating the imputation model; different poverty lines; and alternative (quarterly or …

. Survey-to-survey imputation has been increasingly employed to address these data gaps for poverty measurement, but its … effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine existing poverty imputation models using 14 multi-topic household … surveys conducted over the past decade in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam. We find that adding household …

better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty rate, and …

role. We also find four types of poverty traps, associated with large initial household size, poor initial education, poor …

The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is … sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? ?Poverty? is interpreted broadly and hence the …