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Impact of drought on poverty in Somalia
Pape, Utz Johann; Wollburg, Philip - 2019
. This paper uses micro-data from two waves of the Somali High Frequency Survey to assess the impact of the severe drought … that Somalia experienced in 2016/17 on poverty, hunger, and consumption. The analysis uses a regression framework to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002717
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Is there such thing as middle class values? : class differences, values and political orientations in Latin America
López-Calva, Luis F.; Rigolini, Jamele; Torche, Florencia - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487166
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Why are the elderly more averse to immigration when they are more likely to benefit? : evidence across countries
Schotte, Simone; Winkler, Hernan - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431457
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The effects of the intensity, timing, and persistence of personal history of mobility on support for redistribution
Dabalen, Andrew; Parinduri, Rasyad; Paul, Saumik - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259634
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I perceive therefore I demand : the formation of inequality perceptions and demand for redistribution
Bussolo, Maurizio; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Giolbas, Anna; … - 2019
individuals' demand for redistribution. The analysis finds that objective macro variables are associated with individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059022
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Identifying urban areas by combining data from the ground and from outer space : an application to India
Galdo, Virgilio; Li, Yue; Rama, Martín - 2018
villages, as officially defined, are urban or rural in practice. Based on these assessments, a regression analysis combines two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002176
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Sex, lies, and surveys : the role of interviewer characteristics
Koroknay-Palicz, Tricia; Montalvao, Joao - 2019
This paper examines how easily observable interviewer characteristics, such as gender and physical attractiveness, and more difficult to observe characteristics, such as attitudes and beliefs, affect adolescent girls' disclosure of sexual behavior during a baseline survey for an adolescent girls...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004961
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Communism as the unhappy coming
Djankov, Simeon; Nikolova, Elena - 2018
This paper shows that Eastern Orthodox believers are less happy compared with Catholics and Protestants using data covering more than 100 countries around the world. Consistent with the happiness results, the paper also finds that relative to Catholics, Protestants, and non-believers, those of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011843872
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Recall length and measurement error in agricultural surveys
Wollburg, Philip; Tiberti, Marco; Zezza, Alberto - 2020
. Using data from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture in Malawi and Tanzania … periods. The analysis also finds evidence of measurement error related to the length of recall in common measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228617
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The state of land use in Northern Nigeria : a landsat-based mapping framework
Sedano, Fernando; Molini, Vasco; Azad, M Abul Kalam - 2020
thematic detail, resulting in a more precise characterization of agriculture in the region. The map reveals that agriculture is … reported national average for Nigeria (38.4 percent). Irrigated agriculture covers nearly 2.2 percent of the total area …, reaching nearly 20 percent of the cultivated land when traditional floodplain agriculture systems are included, which is above …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297766