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more likely to be alive than the poor's mothers. Using panel data set for Indonesia and Vietnam, we also find that older …
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Human capital, including health and nutrition, has played a key role in the literature on poverty traps. Economic … and, thereby, push individuals into poverty. Three potential concerns in this literature are explored with empirical … evidence drawn from primary longitudinal survey data collected before and after two major shocks in Indonesia: the 1998 …
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The recent financial crisis in Indonesia has resulted in dramatic price increases. Using very recent data, we …
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to poorest. When poverty is defined using per-capita expenditure and the common PPP$2 per day threshold, we find that … poverty: the results of community-based methods are more correlated with how individual community members rank each other and …
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Between 1940 and 1980, the homeownership rate among metropolitan African-American households increased by 27 percentage points. Nearly three-quarters of this increase occurred in central cities. We show that rising black homeownership in central cities was facilitated by the movement of white...
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We show that much of the recent reported decrease in interstate migration is a statistical artifact. Before 2006, the Census Bureau's imputation procedure for dealing with missing data inflated the estimated interstate migration rate. An undocumented change in the procedure corrected the problem...
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We review patterns in migration within the US over the past thirty years. Internal migration has fallen noticeably since the 1980s, reversing increases from earlier in the century. The decline in migration has been widespread across demographic and socioeconomic groups, as well as for moves of...
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This paper examines a possible connection between China's massive rural to urban migration and high chemical fertilizer use rates during the late 1980s and 1990s. Using panel data on villages in rural China (1987-2002), we find that labor out-migration and fertilizer use per hectare are...
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We analyze the secular decline in interstate migration in the United States between 1991 and 2011. Gross flows of people across states are about 10 times larger than net flows, yet have declined by around 50 percent over the past 20 years. We argue that the fall in migration is due to a decline...
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In this paper, I examine changes in labor supply and earnings across regions of Mexico during the 1990s. I focus the analysis on individuals born in states with either high-exposure or low-exposure to emigration, as measured by historical data on state migration to the United States. During the...
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