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On the Contribution of Demographic Change to Aggregate Poverty Measures for the Developing World
Ravallion, Martin - 2012
non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554039
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Adult Mortality and Children's Transition into Marriage
Beegle, Kathleen; Krutikova, Sofya - 2012
Adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS and other diseases is posited to affect children through a number of pathways. On top … of health and education outcomes, adult mortality can have significant effects on children by influencing demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552590
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A Kleptocrat's Survival Guide : Autocratic Longevity in the Face of Civil Conflict
Milante, Gary - 2012
Autocratic regimes are quite often short-lived kleptocracies formed and maintained through force and used to appropriate wealth from subjects. Some of these autocracies collapse after only a year or two of plundering while others manage to survive for 15 or 20 years. This paper asks why some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552647
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The Long-run Impact of Orphanhood
Beegle, Kathleen; De Weerdt, Joachim; Dercon, Stefan - 2012
This paper presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long run for health and education outcomes, in a region of Northwestern Tanzania. The paper studies a sample of 718 non-orphaned children surveyed in 1991-94, who were traced and re-interviewed as adults in 2004. A large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552798
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Measuring Ancient Inequality
Milanovic, Branko; Lindert, Peter H.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2012
Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552864
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Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS
Beegle, Kathleen; De Weerdt, Joachim; Dercon, Stefan - 2012
The authors use a 13-year panel of individuals in Tanzania to assess how adult mortality shocks affect both short and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553903
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The Long-Term Legacy of the Khmer Rouge Period in Cambodia
de Walque, Damien - 2013
contributes to the literature on the economic analysis of conflict. Using mortality data for siblings from the Cambodia … Demographic and Health Survey in 2000, he shows that excess mortality was extremely high and heavily concentrated during 1974 … educated background were more likely to die. Infant mortality was also at very high levels during the period, and disability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559891
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Nowcasting Global Poverty
Castañeda Aguilar, R. Andrés; Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; … - 2021
This paper evaluates different methods for nowcasting country-level poverty rates, including methods that apply statistical learning to large-scale country-level data obtained from the World Development Indicators and Google Earth Engine. The methods are evaluated by withholding measured poverty...
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Cost-effective Estimation of the Population Mean Using Prediction Estimators
Fujii, Tomoki; van der Weide, Roy - 2013
This paper considers the prediction estimator as an efficient estimator for the population mean. The study may be viewed as an earlier study that proved that the prediction estimator based on the iteratively weighted least squares estimator outperforms the sample mean. The analysis finds that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560114
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Advanced-Country Policies and Emerging-Market Currencies
Ikeda, Yuki; Medvedev, Denis; Rama, Martin - 2015
The global financial crisis and its aftermath have triggered extraordinary policy responses in advanced countries. The impacts of these policy responses—from asset price bubbles to currency depreciations—have often been felt in the developing world. As tapering talk evolves into actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564370