opportunities, including for women and youth. This paper examines the role of e-commerce participation in household income growth …-commerce participation is not random: participation is higher among the households with younger household heads, with secondary education …-commerce participation is associated with higher household income, with some indications that participation has a strong positive effect on …

This paper investigates whether the utilization of microcredit programs has a significant impact on the income and net … of panel data on households in Bangladesh to estimate bounds on the causal effects of microcredit programs. The analysis …

Mexican households to analyze the relations between their levels of income, consumption of different forms of energy, and the … income deciles and energy consumption and some household characteristics -- pointing to differentiated mechanisms for …The analysis of household energy consumption patterns is critical for evaluating public mechanisms, such as subsidies …

-food consumption are, however, prevalent among low-income households. The paper examines potential crisis mitigators and finds that at … impact of income shocks on household consumption, with the former especially important in middle-income countries … consumption patterns. The analysis is based on the 2010 wave of the Life in Transition Survey, which covers 12,704 households in …

studied with household survey data. But comparing households with and without emigrants is complicated by a triple …-dependent heterogeneity introduces a fourth form of selectivity -- one must now worry not just about whether households migrate, but also when …-selectivity problem: first, households self-select into emigration; second, in some emigrant households everyone moves while others leave …

households with and without electricity, which have well known causal attribution problems. This paper is one of the first … studies to examine the welfare impacts of households? rural electrification based on panel surveys conducted in 2002 and 2005 … for some 1,100 households in rural Vietnam,. The findings indicate that grid electrification has been both extensive …

improving households' risk-management through income diversification. The intervention targeted agricultural households exposed …. Households that received the productive investment grant also had higher average consumption levels. The complementary … conditional cash transfer and control households. These results show that combining safety nets with productive interventions can …

This paper uses data from eight different consumption questionnaires randomly assigned to 4,000 households in Tanzania … to obtain evidence on the nature of measurement errors in estimates of household consumption. While there are no … questionnaires shows that errors have a negative correlation with the true value of consumption, creating a non-classical measurement …

-indebted households in rural India. It isolates the causal effect of bankruptcy-like debt relief settlements using a natural experiment … history. The analysis shows that debt relief has a persistent effect on the level of household debt, but does not increase …