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The paper traces the evolution the concept of socioeconomic vulnerability to climate change has followed in the academic and scientific debate. The recent recognition of vulnerability as a social construction has shifted the focus of the analysis on the dimension of adaptive capacity, i.e. the...
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Imperfect capital markets and commitment problems impede lumpy human capital investments. Labeled loans have been postulated as a potential solution to both constraints, but little is known about the role of the label in influencing investment choices in practice. We draw on a cluster randomized...
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We study the effects of conditional cash transfers to pregnant women on stillbirths and child survival in Bolivia. Payments are conditional on compliance with medically recommended prenatal care and skilled birth attendance. At a value equivalent to just 1% of monthly household consumption, the...
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college attendance for girls. It also reduced the take-up of welfare benefits by ages 26 and 30 and increased the planned use …
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Advancing the economic understanding of suicide's externalities, this study uses the well-being valuation method (WVM) to quantify the exposure to suicide, specifically through knowing someone near, family, or friend (NFF) who attempted or died by suicide. First, using data from a survey of...
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sanitation, on the one hand, and child outcomes like the incidence of diarrhea or child development, on the other. These papers …, rather than morbidity, nutritional status, and development. Also, it has generally not been possible to separately estimate …
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The prevalence and determinants of intimate partner violence (IPV) among older women are severely understudied. This paper documents that the incidence of IPV remains high at old ages and provides the first evidence of the impact of access to income on IPV for older women. We leverage a Mexican...
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household welfare in terms of consumption expenditure, income, assets and poverty status. The results show large gaps between …Access to reliable energy is central to improvements in living standards and is a Sustainable Development Goal. This … receives on their welfare. We hypothesize that additional hours of electricity have different effects on the poor, the middle …
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. The evaluation of other outcomes also suggests that the level of welfare of the affected individuals has been negatively …
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