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 …

The analysis of household energy consumption patterns is critical for evaluating public mechanisms, such as subsidies … role played by different household characteristics. Using microdata from the Mexican Income Expenditure Surveys, the paper … income deciles and energy consumption and some household characteristics -- pointing to differentiated mechanisms for …

the macro level a flexible monetary regime is associated with fewer cutbacks in household consumption. At the meso level … impact of income shocks on household consumption, with the former especially important in middle-income countries …

studied with household survey data. But comparing households with and without emigrants is complicated by a triple … allow for estimation of duration effects. The authors find that migration reduced poverty among former household members …

the most recent and nationally representative household survey (Ghana Living Standards Survey 2012/13), the estimates …This papers investigates to what extent internal migration contributes to improving households' welfare in Ghana. Using … economic activity. However, the migration process in Ghana has important downsides, such as the brain drain and disruption of …

Regression discontinuity designs applied to a set of household surveys from the 1980-90s allow to examine whether Cote … d'Ivoire's aggregate wealth was translated at the borders of neighboring countries. At the border of Ghana and at the …