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improving households' risk-management through income diversification. The intervention targeted agricultural households exposed …
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accompanied by an increase in output per capita. However, there is no evidence of an impact on household expenditure per capita …
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Do potential migrants have accurate information about the risks and returns of migrating abroad? And, given the information they have, what is their revealed willingness to trade risks for higher earnings? To answer these questions, this paper sets up and analyzes a randomized field experiment...
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How do labor income shocks affect household investment in upper secondary and tertiary schooling? Using longitudinal … data from 2005-15 for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, this paper explores the effect of a negative household income shock on … three countries, the analysis finds evidence that youth who drop out due to a household income shock have worse employment …
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dispersion of average incomes across countries. Between 1988 and 2008, a period of rapidly increasing global integration, income … any analysis based on household surveys, these results could miss important increases in inequality if they are …
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This research estimates the impact of international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth of formerly sponsored …. Estimations indicate that international child sponsorship increased monthly income by $13?17 over an untreated baseline of $75 …
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, within 70 countries at various levels of development, there is a positive relationship between income per capita and the … fully accounted for by (a) relatively higher ICT prices in low-income countries and (b) industrial composition …
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This paper develops a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility and welfare …. Individual income is assumed to follow a stochastic process with two (unobserved) components, component representing measurement … error or transitory income shocks and an Autoregressive (AR(1)) component representing persistent changes in income. The …
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Recruiting and retaining leaders and public servants at the grass-roots level in developing countries creates a potential tension between providing sufficient returns to attract talent and limiting the scope for excessive rent-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that...
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structural route of the past, through manufacturing, to higher income, but with appropriate investments, they can develop high …
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