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Federation, using equivalence scales constructed from subjective wealth and more than 20 waves of household panel survey data … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …
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Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence … overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … percent of inequality in Senegal. The authors uncover the fact that household structure and organization are key correlates of …
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paper finds that through bulk purchasing the average household could spend 8.7 percent less without reducing purchasing …
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This paper assesses how household context and characteristics shape the welfare trajectory and more specifically the … social assistance program. The analysis is based on a unique data set combining panel household survey data with in … combining quantitative and qualitative information, the paper draws a more nuanced picture of how household characteristics …
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-2016 poverty analysis study, by taking a closer look at some of the household-level welfare trends between 2011 and 2016 …
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remains an open question. The paper combines Afrobarometer data on household expectations on economic conditions and living …
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impacts. The analysis finds that household structure is an important determinant of the behavioral and distributional impacts …
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of granularity. This methodology is applied to India, where individual household survey records are mapped to "places …" (both rural and urban) below the district level. The analysis disentangles the contributions household characteristics and … locations make to labor earnings, proxied by nominal household expenditure per capita. The paper shows that one-third of the …
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transfer delivery mechanisms on education, health, and household welfare outcomes. The two-year pilot program randomly … health check-ups. Compared with the control group, cash transfers improve children's education and health and household …. Cash transfers to fathers also yield relatively more household investment in livestock, cash crops, and improved housing …
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This paper uses a stochastic dynamic programming model to characterize the optimal savings-consumption decisions and the role of livestock inventories as a buffer stock in rural Ethiopia. The results show that relatively land-rich households use accumulation and liquidation of cattle and other...
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