paper examines the long-term effects of household electrification on consumption, labor supply, and schooling in rural India … over 1982-99. It finds that household electrification brought significant gains to consumption and earnings, the latter …

household-level data imposing minimum aggregation. The authors find negligible impacts on inequality and poverty in the …Chen and Ravallion use China's national household surveys for rural and urban areas to measure and explain the welfare … first-order approximations based on a household model incorporating own-production activities and are calibrated to the …

but others do not. Household income, for example, is a highly significant predictor of self-rated economic welfare; per … to work. This paper - a product of Poverty and Human Resources, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort …

December 1999: Yes - and more efficiently by women than by men, according to this analysis of household survey data for … Bangladesh. An illiterate adult earns significantly more in the nonfarm economy when living in a household with at least one … literate member. According to theory, a member of a collective-action household may or may not share knowledge with others in …