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Movements in and out of poverty are of core interest to both policymakers and economists. Yet the panel data needed to … analyze such movements are rare. In this paper, the authors build on the methodology used to construct poverty maps to show … how repeated cross-sections of household survey data can allow inferences to be made about movements in and out of poverty …
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Mexico and from special surveys in India and Tonga to show similar patterns of association between mental health and … worse mental health themselves. In contrast, there is little observed relation between mental health and consumption poverty … multidimensional shocks, such as illness or crisis, can have a greater impact on mental health than poverty. This may have important …
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surveys in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, and Mexico, along with special surveys from India and Tonga, show similar … contrast, there is little observed relationship between mental health and poverty or education, common measures of socio … impact on mental health than overall levels of poverty. This may have important implications for social protection policy …
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The basic economic model of labor supply has a very clear prediction of what we should expect when an adult receives an unexpected cash windfall: they should work less and earn less. This intuition underlies concerns that many types of cash transfers, ranging from government benefits to migrant...
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earnings is found to be very low in Mexico, suggesting that the high level of inequality found in the cross-section will …
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"The authors investigate the impact of international migration on child health outcomes in rural Mexico using a …
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