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poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …
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forest cover change and alleviate poverty. We examine protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon using high-resolution satellite …
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We estimate the effect of the introduction of the UK’s National Living Wage in 2016, and increases in it up to 2019, using a new empirical method. We apply a bunching approach to a setting with no geographical variation in minimum wage rates. We effectively compare employment changes in each...
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to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject … equal sharing, and find large gender gaps in resource shares, and consequently in poverty rates, in some countries. …
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living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved …
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This paper examines the allocation of resources of poverty rates within households in Suriname. To this end we employ a …
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