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Measuring food security using respondents' perception of food consumption adequacy

Migotto, Mauro; Davis, Benjamin; Caretto, Gero; Beegle, … - 2006

Food security is a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon. As such, its measurement may entail and benefit from the combination of both ‘qualitative-subjective’ and ‘quantitative-objective’ indicators. Yet, the evidence on the external validity of subjectivetype information is scarce,...

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Measuring Food Security Using Respondents’ Perception of Food Consumption Adequacy

Migotto, Mauro; Davis, Benjamin; Carletto, Gero; … - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2005

Food security is a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon. As such, its measurement may entail and benefit from the combination of both “qualitative-subjective” and “quantitative-objective” indicators. Yet, the evidence on the external validity of subjective-type information is scarce,...

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Labor Shortages Despite Underemployment? Seasonality in Time Use in Malawi

Wodon, Quentin; Beegle, Kathleen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Evidence for Malawi and other developing countries suggests the existence of labor shortages at the peak of the cropping season, with negative impacts on the ability of households to make the most of their endowments such as land. At the same time, for most of the year, there is substantial...

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Migration and economic mobility in Tanzania : evidence from a tracking survey

Beegle, Kathleen (contributor); … - 2008

Tanzania. Using longitudinal data on individuals, the authors estimate the impact of migration on consumption growth between …

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Migration and economic mobility in Tanzania : evidence from a tracking survey

Beegle, Kathleen; De Weerdt, Joachim; Dercon, Stefan - 2010

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Can Subjective Questions on Economic Welfare be Trusted? : Evidence for Three Developing Countries

Ravallion, Martin - 2013

While self-assessments of welfare have become popular for measuring poverty and estimating welfare effects, the methods … uses specially-designed surveys in three countries, Tajikistan, Guatemala, and Tanzania, to study scale heterogeneity … considerable doubt on the meaning of widely-used summary measures such as subjective poverty rates. Nonetheless, under the …

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