financial products: weather insurance, savings, and credit. The paper develops a dynamic stochastic mode to capture the … essential features of the lives of West African rural households. The model is calibrated with data from farmers in Burkina Faso …. Weather insurance offers the largest welfare gains at each level of wealth, although the gains are significantly reduced by …

Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence …. The current practice of ignoring inequality within households could lead to an underestimation of both overall inequality … overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 …

peer-to-peer transfers. Data from a 2018 survey of more than 4,500 households show that the agent rollout led to cost-savings … fraction of households with very low food security from 62.9 to 47.2 percent, in areas far from a bank branch. The analysis … finds no effect on savings, agricultural outcomes, or poverty. Overall, the findings add new evidence that mobile money can …

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 …

This paper evaluates the impact of access to credit from banks and other financial institutions on household welfare in … Mauritania. Micro-level data from a 2014 household survey are used to evaluate the relationship between credit access, a range of … household characteristics, and welfare indicators. To address potential endogeneity issues, the household isolation level is …

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 …

This paper uses a stochastic dynamic programming model to characterize the optimal savings-consumption decisions and …-rich households use accumulation and liquidation of cattle and other animal inventories for partial consumption smoothing, while low …-income households appear not to do so. The results highlight the need for improvement in livestock markets, which are often affected by …

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 …