Household expenditures for children-related goods may change when one of the parent migrates and do so differently … migration is accounted for using a set of instrumental variables derived from the model. Results show that when children are … left with fathers, the household budget is significantly diverted toward the purchase of adult private goods, but the share …

health check-ups. Compared with the control group, cash transfers improve children's education and health and household … transfer delivery mechanisms on education, health, and household welfare outcomes. The two-year pilot program randomly …. Conditionality was linked to older children enrolling in school and attending regularly and younger children receiving preventive …

This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the … ages 18 and above. Poverty rates are high for children ages 0 to 4 years, slightly higher among ages 5 to 9 years, and … to the use of alternative household equivalence scales when adjusting the international poverty line accordingly. Child …

find that such measures, while useful, will have only a limited effect on the mortality of poor children. They find that …

declines continuously with rising living standards; 3) the tendency of poorer children to have higher rates of stunting, and …

overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … intra-household inequality and individual risk of poverty …Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence …

between rural non-farm activities (wage and self-employment) and household welfare in rural Malawi. The paper analyzes the …-farm wage employment and non-farm self-employment are welfare improving and poverty reducing. However, households at the lower … support the promotion of the rural non-farm economy for poverty reduction purposes, they indicate that targeted interventions …

inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct … using household survey data. Poorer households are more likely to be affected by floods; directly affected households are …

is not sufficient to close the infrastructure gap. Disruptions and irregular service have adverse effects on household …