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-over and above the effect of receiving cash grants-on reducing depression and anxiety, as well as improving well-being among … significant (at the 10 percent level) reduction in the intensity and prevalence of depression and anxiety symptoms (measured by … the Patient Health Questionnaire Anxiety and Depression Scale) and higher levels of well-being (measured by the five …
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Based on their objective economic situation and comparing with their peers, individuals form perceptions of their economic position in a society. Data from the three waves of the Life in Transition surveys of European countries show that these perceptions systematically deviate from the rankings...
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household victimization across the most conflict-affected regions in Nigeria between 2010 and 2017, during a time characterized … exploiting the plausibly exogenous variation in the timing, intensity, and spatial distribution of victimization, this study … actors have different motivations for their actions, the consequences of victimization might vary depending on the …
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importance of perception and anxiety about meeting basic food needs. Using panel data from Malawi, this paper shows that worrying … rapidly rising food prices are a source of the anxiety and experiences of food insecurity. This finding controls for … importance of accounting for anxiety in assessing food insecurity is that individuals report a significant increase in …
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This review examines the literature on the welfare impacts of infrastructure disruptions. There is widespread evidence that households suffer from the consequences of a lack of infrastructure reliability, and that being connected to the grid is not sufficient to close the infrastructure gap....
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The paper reviews 49 empirical studies that estimate the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A review of the empirical models used by these studies and a meta-analysis of 762 separate results collected from them are the main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 17 major...
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This paper examines how parents' early childhood exposure to a refugee crisis impacts their children's health status … treatment. The findings show that children who were born to parents who were living closer to refugee camps during their early …
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"Past research has found that subjective questions about an individuals' economic status do not correspond closely to measures of economic welfare based on household income or consumption. Survey respondents undoubtedly hold diverse ideas about what it means to be "poor" or "rich." Further, this...
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"This paper proposes that individuals care about the relative income of proximate reference groups. Making use of self-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a reference point for new sample data from Venezuela....
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