Mobile phones and the internet have significantly affected practically all sectors of the economy, and agriculture is …

Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the … extent to which this varies across workers of different human capital (education) levels. They use longitudinal income data … on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in different manufacturing sectors in Mexico …

effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … separable class, and at percentiles. It also lends itself to a decomposition procedure, whereby the overall pattern of income … growth can be unbundled, and the contributions of income components to overall pro-poorness identified. An application to …

contributed to raise purchase prices and the cash income of vanilla farmers. But the effect on farmers' consumption remains small …

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of … the authors in these two countries allows experimental estimates of the income gains from migration by comparing the …

structural route of the past, through manufacturing, to higher income, but with appropriate investments, they can develop high …

s. This contributed to the well-known increase in the top 1 percent's share of total income, exacerbating rising … the asymmetries in the association, tests for robustness to alternative income definitions, and discusses the potential …

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 …