, on the food share of expenditures and consumption of calories among poor households in rural Kenya. Our preferred …

focus on Kenya, which has made significant strides in financial inclusion and development in recent years. We find a …

. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …

patterns and gender differences in schooling attainment …

Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left …

better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …

shallow knowledge. This simple idea can inform cross-country income differences, international trade patterns, poverty traps …

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …

Poverty and altered planning horizons brought on by the HIV/AIDS epidemic can change individual discount rates …, altering incentives to conserve natural resources. Using longitudinal data from household surveys in western Kenya, we estimate …