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We study the impact of plausibly exogenous global food price shocks on local violence across the African continent. In food-producing areas, higher food prices reduce conflict over the control of territory (what we call "factor conflict") and increase conflict over the appropriation of surplus...
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impact of such insulating behavior on poverty in various developing countries and globally. The analysis finds that the … actual poverty-reducing impact of insulation is much less than its apparent impact, and that its net effect was to increase … global poverty in 2008 by 8 million people, although this increase was not significantly different from zero. The paper …
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prices, and poverty in the agriculture sector. We first focus on how export taxes have impacted trade and international …, vegetables, oilseeds and oils. We then use a computable general equilibrium model to examine the impacts to trade and poverty if …
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microlending to the poor, incorporated a widely-used poverty measurement tool into their loan applications and tested the tool …
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The paper provides the first assessment of: (i) America's progress in lifting the lower bound—the floor—of the distribution of real income; (ii) whether the country's largest antipoverty program, SNAP (“food stamps”), helped do so. An operational method of estimating the floor is...
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This paper studies the long-run effects of a "big-push" program providing a large asset transfer to the poorest Indian households. In a randomized controlled trial that follows these households over 10 years, we find positive effects on consumption (0.6 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3...
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We examine the effects of cold weather periods on family budgets and on nutritional outcomes in poor American families. Expenditures on food and home fuels are tracked by linking the Consumer Expenditure Survey to temperature data. Using the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination...
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We examine the extent to which food insecurity questions and the standard poverty measure are correlated with various … related to the diets of children. In contrast, poverty predicts dietary outcomes among preschoolers. Among adults, both … poverty and food insecurity questions are good predictors of many dietary outcomes …
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This paper considers the long-run patterns of poverty in the United States from the early 1960s to 2010. Our results … contradict previous studies that have argued that poverty has shown little improvement over time or that anti-poverty efforts … have been ineffective. We find that moving from traditional income-based measures of poverty to a consumption-based measure …
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How important are subsistence concerns in a family's decision to send a child to work? We consider this question in Ecuador, where poor families are selected at random to receive a cash transfer that is equivalent to 7 percent of monthly expenditures. Winning the cash transfer lottery is...
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