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This paper studies the effect of rolling out mobile money agents in rural Northern Uganda. In a randomized experiment, 168 areas were randomly selected to receive an agent in 2017, with another 163 areas serving as a control group. Administrative data on mobile money transactions suggest that...
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Federation, using equivalence scales constructed from subjective wealth and more than 20 waves of household panel survey data … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …
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Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence … overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … percent of inequality in Senegal. The authors uncover the fact that household structure and organization are key correlates of …
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paper finds that through bulk purchasing the average household could spend 8.7 percent less without reducing purchasing …
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remains an open question. The paper combines Afrobarometer data on household expectations on economic conditions and living …
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impacts. The analysis finds that household structure is an important determinant of the behavioral and distributional impacts …
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