problems, along with a summary of the costs and benefits of some of the solutions. Emphasis is on the results from rigorous …

in employment, and that household characteristics influence women's economic opportunities. While having a female … household head, access to agricultural land, and the number of female adults increased female participation in economic … activities, conversely, higher numbers of children in the household significantly reduce women's opportunities. Higher education …

on how they vary within the city and how they are related to household characteristics. First, drawing on a household …

This paper analyzes the relationship between whether a young person has a disability, the poverty status of their … household, and their school participation using 11 household surveys from nine developing countries. Between 1 and 2 percent of …

nationally representative household surveys and making an explicit attempt to account for one of the inherent costs associated …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 …

districts have better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty …

This study applies the cost-of-basic-needs approach to estimate food and total poverty lines for the Brazilian case …. Using detailed data on expenditures from a 2017/18 household budget survey and caloric information from the Brazilian Table … representative group of the population. The preferred results estimate the value of the food poverty line at R$258 (in 2018 urban …