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Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households? Evidence using Nutrition Data for Africa
Brown, Caitlin S. - 2017
assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely … higher undernutrition tend to have higher shares of undernourished individuals in non-poor households. The results are …
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Food Insecurity or Poverty? Measuring Need-Related Dietary Adequacy
Bhattacharya, Jayanta - 2002
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469711
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Intrahousehold Inequality
Chiappori, Pierre-André - 2014
Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element of the distribution of welfare that can vary dramatically depending on overall environmental and economic factors. Thus, measures of inequality that ignore intra household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458473
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Can Iron-Fortified Salt Control Anemia? Evidence from Two Experiments in Rural Bihar
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2016
Iron deficiency anemia is frequent among the poor worldwide. While it can be prevented with the appropriate supplement or food fortification, these programs often do not consistently reach the poorest. This paper reports on the impact of a potential strategy to address iron deficiency anemia in...
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Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa
Heldring, Leander - 2012
In this paper we evaluate the impact of colonialism on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the world context … negative effect on development in Africa. To develop this claim we distinguish between three sorts of colonies: (1) those which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460094
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How Is Power Shared In Africa?
Francois, Patrick - 2012
This paper presents new evidence on the power sharing layout of national political elites in a panel of African countries, most of them autocracies. We present a model of coalition formation across ethnic groups and structurally estimate it employing data on the ethnicity of cabinet ministers...
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Kinship Structure and the Family : Evidence from the Matrilineal Belt
Lowes, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
OLS and a geographic regression discontinuity design along the matrilineal belt in Africa. Using over 50 DHS survey …
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Does Household Electrification Supercharge Economic Development?
Lee, Kenneth - 2019
In recent years, electrification has re-emerged as a key priority in low-income countries, with a particular focus on electrifying households. Yet the microeconomic literature examining the impacts of electrifying households on economic development has produced a set of conflicting results. Does...
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Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves
Miller, Grant - 2013
This paper examines whether an intra-household externality prevents adoption of a technology with substantial implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives...
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Intergenerational Persistence in Child Mortality
Lu, Frances R.; Vogl, Tom - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the intergenerational persistence of inequality by estimating grandmother-mother associations in the loss of a child, using pooled data from 119 Demographic and Health Surveys in 44 developing countries. Compared with compatriots of the same age, women with at least one sibling who died...
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