We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with … idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and across space in an instrumented DiD methodology. We find that adopter …

We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with … idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and across space in an instrumented DiD methodology. We find that adopter …

We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with … idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and across space in an instrumented DiD methodology. We find that adopter …

uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic human capabilities for three countries: Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Vietnam …We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the …. We compute standard errors of the resulting poverty estimates and compare the incidence of poverty across these three …

microdata from Tanzania. We use idiosyncratic variation in rainfall to proxy for shocks on household income of rural households … negative rainfall shock from the long-term mean increases the incidence by about 13.1 per cent compared to the baseline. We …

-rich African countries: Tanzania and Mali.We utilize a rich data set collected from various sources and apply a differences … level by using the appropriate poverty mapping techniques and apply Abadie et al. (2010)'s Synthetic Control Group method to … conclusions for the two case countries. In the case of Tanzania, we show that households in the immediate mining catchment area …

revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality … competition. -- Poverty ; human capital ; life-cycle analysis ; lifetime income ; education ; taxation ; transfers …

In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become … ineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …