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overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … intra-household inequality and individual risk of poverty …Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence …
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insights from poverty analysis and urban economics, and develops a methodology to assess spatial performance with a high degree … 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 …
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household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian …
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finds no effect on savings, agricultural outcomes, or poverty. Overall, the findings add new evidence that mobile money can …
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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 …
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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 …
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This paper uses a stochastic dynamic programming model to characterize the optimal savings-consumption decisions and the role of livestock inventories as a buffer stock in rural Ethiopia. The results show that relatively land-rich households use accumulation and liquidation of cattle and other...
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While there are many positive societal implications of increased female labor force opportunities, some theoretical models and empirical evidence suggest that working can increase a woman's risk of suffering domestic violence. Using a dataset collected in peri-urban Dhaka, this analysis...
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This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries to determine how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a novel measure of women's empowerment that is closely linked...
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Important progress toward gender equality has been made in the past decades, but inequalities linked to gender norms, stereotypes, and the unequal distribution of housework and childcare responsibilities persist. Lifetime events such as marriage and parenthood bring substantial changes in time...
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