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Social networks, geographic proximity, and firm performance in Viet Nam
Howard, Emma - 2017
This paper uses panel data to assess the relative importance of social networks and geographic proximity to micro, small, and medium enterprises in Viet Nam. The results suggest that a larger social network, and hiring employees mainly through social networks, are both correlated with higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628141
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Estimating multidimensional poverty in Zambia
Mahrt, Kristi; Masumbu, Gibson - 2015
In this paper, we apply the first-order dominance (FOD) approach to assessing multidimensional welfare to analyse … multidimensional poverty in Zambia in 1996, 2006, and 2010. In addition to evaluating welfare across time and space, we extend the … methodology to evaluate welfare by rural agricultural strata and urban housing cost areas. This modification allows a more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412515
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Multidimensional assessment of child welfare for Tanzania
Arndt, Channing; Leyaro, Vincent; Mahrt, Kristi; Tarp, Finn - 2016
We contribute to the literature on trends in living standards in Tanzania by analysing child welfare using two multi … in the middle. The methodologies also complement each other by providing upper and lower bounds on underlying welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484492
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Do people in income poverty use their income efficiently? : a subjective well-being approach
Rojas, Mariano - 2012
A subjective well-being approach is followed to assess the magnitude of inefficiency in the use of income. The information comes from a Mexican survey and an X-inefficiency technique is used. The paper shows that there exists substantial inefficiency in the use of income at all income levels,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691046
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Mandated political representation and crimes against the low castes
Girard, Victoire - 2016
Mandated political representation over the last twenty years has had a different impact on the reporting of crime by the low castes than what is observed for the reporting of crime by women. I exploit the timing of the implementation of mandated political representation of the low castes to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485316
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Climate justice for persons with disability : few harmed much, fewer still harmed too much
Tampubolon, Gindo - 2023
Building on Rawls' theory of justice and Sen's theory of capabilities, I present an outline of social justice under … climate shocks, illustrating it with the experiences of persons with disability. Social justice holds when inequality is … of the Rawlsian social welfare function. Climate injustice consists in putting more climate bads, not primary goods, on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013549974
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Intra-household bargaining in poor countries
Baland, Jean-Marie; Ziparo, Roberta - 2017
marriages, strategic investment, gender norms, and extended households play in the attainment of efficiency. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011639742
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Inequality, ethnicity, and social cohesion
McDoom, Omar - 2017
How do changes in socio-economic inequality between ethnic groups affect interethnic ties in a divided society? I analyse the evolution of cross-ethnic marriages in a society affected by violence along ethnic boundaries and make three principal findings. First, as inequality between ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011775880
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Social networks, role models, peer effects, and aspirations
Mani, Anandi; Riley, Emma - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2019
We review the literature on pathways through which social networks may influence social mobility in developing countries. We find that social networks support members in tangible ways-via access to opportunities for migration, credit, trading relationships, information on jobs, and new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161303
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Exploring the network of individuals that influence the media's inflation message in South Africa
Smuts, Katrien - 2023
The main goal of this study-and its potential to add to the policy debate-is to cast light on the network of voices that influence the narrative about inflation and monetary policy in South Africa. To that end, this paper first identifies the main individuals (journalists, domestic policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014368468