poverty will certainly be very diverse, but the average impact on poverty depends upon the balance between these two effects …-income countries show that the short-run impacts of higher staple food prices on poverty differ considerably by commodity and by … country, but, that poverty increases are much more frequent, and larger, than poverty reductions. The recent large increases …

exhibits an inverted-U shape. Applying the data to the model confirms that the relationship is concave when all children (8 … relationship holds only for older children, both genders. The author investigates the effect of the conditional cash transfer … of children. Disentangling labor into two types - physically demanding labor and non-physical labor - reveals that the …

a small increase in household income on child labor should be concentrated among children most vulnerable to … allocation at peak school attendance ages and among children already out of school at baseline, but have large impacts at ages …

United States, OECD-Europe) are more likely to receive international remittances, and that while the level of poverty in a … receive remittances, these resource flows do tend to reduce the level and depth of poverty. At the household level, a review …

This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using … following: (1) regardless of the counterfactual used remittances appear to lower poverty levels in most recipient countries; (2 … heterogeneity in the poverty reduction impact of remittances' flows. Among the aspects that have been identified in the paper that …

household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to …

. Extreme poverty is another factor lowering school attendance, as children who have suffered hunger at some point in their … the role of early parenthood, child labor, and poverty in pushing teenagers out of school. The potential endogeneity of …

The author empirically explores the relationship between household poverty and the incidence and treatment of fever …--as an indicator of malaria--among children in Sub-Saharan Africa. He uses household Demographic and Health Survey data … between reported fever and poverty. The geographic association becomes insignificant, however, after controlling for the …

find that such measures, while useful, will have only a limited effect on the mortality of poor children. They find that …

Educated parents tend to have educated children. But is intergenerational transmission of human capital more nature …, more nurture, or both? The author uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children … influences. The nonrandom placement of children is controlled by including the educational attainment of the absent biological …