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Small Area Estimation of Poverty Under Structural Change

Lange, Simon - 2018

estimated based on a consumption survey reporting on poverty and a census providing the spatial disaggregation. This paper … presents a new method which allows for the estimation of up-to-date small area poverty maps when only a dated census and a more … constructed from the census. The proposed estimator has fewer data requirements and weaker assumptions than common small area …

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Fertility Transition in Turkey?Who is Most at Risk of Deciding Against Child Arrival?

Greulich, Angela - 2017

education and employment come along with important decreases in fertility. By mobilizing census and survey data, this paper …

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Measuring Women's Agency

Donald, Aletheia Amalia - 2017

Improving women's agency, namely their ability to define goals and act on them, is crucial for advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women. Yet, existing frameworks for women's agency measurement -- both disorganized and partial -- provide a fragmented understanding of the constraints...

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Colombo : Exposure, Vulnerability, and Ability to Respond to Floods

Patankar, Archana Mahesh - 2017

This paper examines the exposure, vulnerability, and ability of households in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to respond to floods, and brings out significant policy implications. The study used detailed questionnaire-based surveys to obtain data on households, to understand the vulnerability and impacts of...

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To Sew or Not to Sew? Assessing the Welfare Effects of the Garment Industry in Cambodia

Mejia-Mantilla, Carolina - 2017

This paper uses the 2011 Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey to analyze the relationship between participation in the garment industry and household welfare. The analysis relies on propensity score matching estimators to investigate whether households that have at least one member employed in the...

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Design of a Multi-Stage Stratified Sample for Poverty and Welfare Monitoring with Multiple Objectives : A Bangladesh Case Study

Ahmed, Faizuddin - 2017

This paper describes the design of a multi-stage stratified sample for the Bangladesh Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2016/17. This survey instrument will be used by the Government of Bangladesh to estimate reliable poverty and welfare statistics at three different levels: (i) annual...

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Rising Incomes and Inequality of Access to Infrastructure Among Latin American Households

Fay, Marianne - 2017

This paper documents access to services and ownership of infrastructure-related durables in the water, energy, telecom, and transport areas, based on harmonized household survey data covering 1.6 million households in 14 Latin American countries during 1992 to 2012. The paper provides a...

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Distribution of Consumption Expenditure in East Asia

Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus Fah - 2017

Using a new database of household surveys, this paper examines inequality among all individuals living in developing East Asia regardless of their country of residence. The East Asian Gini index increased from 39.0 in 1988 to 43.3 in 2012. Inequality increased during the initial decade,...

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Root for the Tubers : Extended-Harvest Crop Production and Productivity Measurement in Surveys

Kilic, Talip - 2018

To document the relative accuracy of methods for microdata collection on root and tuber crop production, an experiment was implemented in Malawi over a 12-month period, randomly assigning cassava-producing households to one of four approaches: daily diary-keeping, with semi-weekly supervision...

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School Dropout in Central America : An Overview of Trends, Causes, Consequences, and Promising Interventions

Adelman, Melissa A. - 2017

School dropout is a growing concern in Central America, and in Latin America as a whole, because of its consequences for economic productivity, the inclusiveness of growth, social cohesion, and increasing youth risks. This paper utilizes more than two decades of household survey data to...

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