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Evaluating a targeted social program when placement is decentralized

Ravallion, Martin; Wodon, Quentin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1998

. Decentralization of program placement decisions is common, because of the administrative cost of centralized placement decisions and … decentralization is uncommon; the center typically retains control of broad geographic targeting. The authors argue that partial … decentralization of program placement decisions creates control and instrumental variables useful for identifying program benefits. The …

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Is knowledge shared within households?

Basu, Kaushik; Narayan, Ambar; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

According to theory, a member of a collective-action household may or may not share knowledge with others in that household. Shared income gains from shared knowledge may well be offset by a shift in the balance of power within the family. But do literate members of the household share the...

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Searching for the economic gradient in self-assessed health

Lokshin, Michael; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2005

Can self-assessed health be relied on to identify the true socioeconomic gradients in health status? The self-assessed health of Russian adults in 2002 shows remarkably little gradient with respect to economic welfare. The authors document this finding and assess its robustness to the...

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Does piped water reduce diarrhea for children in rural India ?

Jalan, Jyotsna; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001

The effects of public investments aimed at directly improving children's health are theoretically ambiguous, since the outcomes also depend on indirect effects through parental inputs. The authors investigate the role of such inputs in influencing the incidence of child health gains from access...

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Does child labor displace schooling? - evidence on behavioral responses to an enrollment subsidy

Ravallion, Martin; Wodon, Quentin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

The authors try to determine whether children sent to work in rural Bangladesh are caught in a poverty trap, with the extra income to poor families from child labor coming at the expense of the children's longer-term prospects of escaping poverty through education. The poverty trap argument...

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Measuring poverty using qualitative perceptions of welfare

Pradhan, Menno; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1998

The authors show how subjective poverty lines can be derived using simple qualitative assessments of perceived consumption adequacy, based on a household survey. Respondents were asked whether their consumption of food, housing, and clothing was adequate for their family's needs. The author's...

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Demand for public safety

Pradhan, Menno; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

In public safety of less concern to poor people? What about people in poor areas? How is demand for public safety affected by income inequality? Is there a self-correcting mechanism whereby higher crime increases demand for public safety? The authors study subjective assessments of public safety...

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Protecting the poor from macroeconomic shocks

Ferreira, Francisco; Prennushi, Giovanna; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

Many developing countries faced macroeconomic shocks in the 1980s and 1990s. The impact of the shocks on welfare depended on the nature of the shock, on initial household and community conditions, and on policy responses. To avoid severe and lasting losses to poor and vulnerable groups,...

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Can high-inequality developing countries escape absolute poverty?

Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1997

Do the poor face the same prospects for escaping poverty in high-inequality developing countries as in low-inequality countries? Is it possible for inequality to be so great as to stifle prospects of reducing absolute poverty, even when other initial conditions and policies are favorable to...

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Pro-poor growth : A primer

Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

These days it seems that almost everyone in the development community is talking about"pro-poor growth."What exactly is it, and how can we measure it? Is ordinary economic growth always"pro-poor growth"or is that some special kind of growth? And if it is something special, what makes it happen?...

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