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Long-term effects of PROSPERA on welfare
Aguilar Esteva, Arturo Alberto; Barnard, Cristina; De … - 2019
to policy makers and academics alike. This paper analyzes the long-term effects on the welfare of the original … look into the effects on schooling and health, the analysis focuses on a utilitarian definition of welfare and employs two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114351
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Socioeconomic resilience in Sri Lanka : natural disaster poverty and wellbeing impact assessment
Walsh, Brian; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2019
Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as the main measure of disaster severity. Using an agent-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114431
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Impact of the West African Ebola epidemic on agricultural production and rural welfare : evidence from Liberia
De La Fuente, Alejandro; Jacoby, Hanan; Lawin, … - 2019
mobilization for planting and harvest, thereby reducing rice area planted as well as rice yields. Household welfare, measured by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051875
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What aspects of formality do workers value? : evidence from a choice experiment in Bangladesh
Mahmud, Minhaj Uddin; Gutierrez, Italo A.; Kumar, Krishna B. - 2020
This study uses a choice experiment among 2,000 workers in Bangladesh to elicit willingness to pay (WTP) for job attributes: a contract, termination notice, working hours, paid leave, and a pension fund. Using a stated preference method allows calculation of WTP for benefits in this setting,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228195
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The effects of international scrutiny on manufacturing workers : evidence from the Rana Plaza Collapse in Bangladesh
Bossavie, Laurent; Cho, Yoonyoung; Heath, Rachel - 2019
After the tragic factory collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013, the direct reforms and indirect responses of retailers have both plausibly affected workers in the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh. These reforms include a minimum wage increase, high profile but voluntary audits, and an increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167924
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Lives and livelihoods : estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
Decerf, Benoit; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Mahler, … - 2020
This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … distributional characteristics. Using years of life as a welfare metric yields a single parameter that captures the underlying trade …-off between lives and livelihoods: how many PYs have the same welfare cost as one LY. Taking an agnostic view of this parameter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241367
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Toward successful development policies : insights from research in development economics
Artuc, Erhan; Cull, Robert J.; Dasgupta, Susmita; Jaef, … - 2020
What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228661
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Iraq's universal public distribution system : utilization and impacts during displacement
Phadera, Lokendra; Sharma, Dhiraj; Wai-Poi, Matthew - 2020
are effective in mitigating the loss of welfare induced by forced displacement. This paper examines whether Iraq's Public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229133
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Returns to low-skilled international migration : evidence from the Bangladesh-Malaysia migration lottery program
Mobarak, Mushfiq; Sharif, Iffath A.; Shrestha, Maheshwor - 2020
Many economists believe that the returns to migration are high. However, credible experimental estimates of the benefits of migration are rare, particularly for low-skilled international migrants and their families. This paper studies a natural experiment in Bangladesh, where low-skilled male...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229771
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An optimal rice policy for Sierra Leone : balancing consumer and producer welfare
Graham, Errol George; Tchale, Hardwick; Ndione, Mamadou - 2020
, simulations suggest that an optimal policy path to balance consumer and producer welfare and meet the higher societal objective of … productivity of the sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297240