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Estimating Poverty in Kinshasa by Dealing with Sampling and Comparability Issues

Batana, Yele Maweki; Masaki, Takaaki; Nakamura, Shohei; … - 2021

implemented in 2018. Given the obsolescence of the sampling frame, the survey was sampled using satellite imagery. However, the … collection of data in the field was affected by sampling errors that are likely to compromise the representativeness of the … sample. After addressing these sampling issues and dealing with some comparability issues with the 2012 survey, the paper …

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The Use of Random Geographic Cluster Sampling to Survey Pastoralists

Himelein, Kristen; Eckman, Stephanie; Murray, Siobhan - 2013

Livestock are an important component of rural livelihoods in developing countries, but data about this source of income and wealth are difficult to collect because of the nomadic and semi-nomadic nature of many pastoralist populations. Most household surveys exclude those without permanent...

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Interviewer Effects in Subjective Survey Questions

Himelein, Kristen - 2015

There is an inherent tension between traditional norms and survey protocols for quantitative data collected in the developing world. Unexpected interactions between the interviewer and respondent can lead to interviewer effects in the data, particularly in the case of subjective or sensitive...

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Talk or Text? : Evaluating Response Rates by Remote Survey Method during COVID-19

Amaral, Sofia; Dinarte Diaz, Lelys; Dominguez, Patricio; … - 2022

Researchers and policy makers face significant challenges in selecting a method to conduct remote surveys, especially when collecting sensitive information or during turbulent life stages of hard-to-reach groups. In the context of the COVID-19 lockdown, this study randomly selected about 600...

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Misunderestimating Corruption

Kraay, Aart; Murrell, Peter - 2013

Estimates of the extent of corruption rely largely on self-reports of individuals, business managers, and government officials. Yet it is well known that survey respondents are reticent to tell the truth about activities to which social and legal stigma are attached, implying a downward bias in...

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Private But Misunderstood? : Evidence on Measuring Intimate Partner Violence via Self-Interviewing in Rural Liberia and Malawi

Aggarwal, Shilpa; Jeong, Dahyeon; Kumar, Naresh; Park, … - 2022

Women may under-report intimate partner violence (IPV) due to several social and psychological factors. This study conducts a measurement experiment in rural Liberia and Malawi in which women were asked IPV questions via self-interviewing (SI) or face-to-face interviewing. About a third of women...

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What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2015

Female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2011 are surprisingly low and have stagnated since the late 1980s. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, married women's labor force participation hovered around 18 percent. Analysis...

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Social Transfers, Labor Supply and Poverty Reduction : The Case of Albania

Dabalen, Andrew; Kilic, Talip; Wane, Waly - 2012

In 1993, in response to persistent unemployment, and rising poverty and social unrest, the government of Albania introduced an anti-poverty program, namely Ndihma Ekonomike; in 1995 it was extended to all poor households. This paper estimates the separate effects of participation in this income...

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The Impact of Remittances on Labor Supply : The Case of Jamaica

Kim, Namsuk - 2012

A puzzle in the recently stagnated economy of Jamaica is that high rates of unemployment have persisted even when real wages have been increasing. This paper examines aspects of the labor supply in an effort to understand why high rates of unemployment have existed with increasing real wages....

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Do Remittances Have a Flip Side? A General Equilibrium Analysis of Remittances, Labor Supply Responses, and Policy Options for Jamaica

Bussolo, Maurizio; Medvedev, Denis - 2012

Econometric analysis has established a negative relationship between labor supply and remittances in Jamaica. The authors incorporate this ex-post evidence in a general equilibrium model to investigate economywide effects of increased remittance inflows. In this model, remittances reduce labor...

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