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Multidimensional measurement of richness: Theory and an application to Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2010
Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method to identify individuals, who can be considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269775
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Extreme Weather and Long-term Health: Evidence from Two Millennia of Chinese Elites
Lee, Wang-Sheng; Li, Ben G. - 2019
technology. By combining life course data on 5,000 Chinese elites with historical weather data over the period 1-1840 AD, we find … a significant and robust negative impact of droughts in childhood on the longevity of elites. Quantitatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141285
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Multidimensional Measurement of Richness: Theory and an Application to Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method to identify individuals, who can be considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529131
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Household access to microcredit and child work in rural Malawi
Hazarika, Gautam; Sarangi, Sudipta - 2005
rural Malawi. Given that microcredit organizations foster household enterprises wherein much child labor is engaged, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267637
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269148
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Evaluating nationwide health interventions when standard before-after doesn't work: Malawi's ITN distribution program
Deuchert, Eva; Wunsch, Conny - 2010
evaluate one of Malawi's main malaria prevention campaigns, a nationwide insecticide-treated-net (ITN) distribution scheme, in … that Malawi's ITN distribution campaign reduced child mortality by 1 percentage point, which corresponds to about 30% of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269761
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Where Did It Go Wrong? Marriage and Divorce in Malawi
Cherchye, Laurens; De Rock, Bram; Telalagic Walther, Selma - 2016
? We answer these questions using a structural model of the household and a rich panel dataset from Malawi. We propose a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479361
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296617
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Climate Vulnerability, Communities' Resilience and Child Labour
Boutin, Delphine - 2014
This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and communities' resilience. Both, participation to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435256
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Dynamics in Physical Functioning Limitations
Agarwal, Neha; Kohler, Hans-Peter; Mani, Subha - 2017
data from Malawi to examine path dependence in physical functioning limitations. We do so using a dynamic linear panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786951