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We investigate the impact of smallholder vegetable commercialization through the export and domestic market channels on household income and assets in Kenya. We use a survey panel dataset, which allows us to control for unobserved heterogeneity across households, and show that the...
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Using a staggered installation of sanitary pad vending machines across schools in the Indian state of Kerala, we study the impacts of free monthly access to sanitary pads on girls’ educational outcomes. We find that the number of dropouts among female students in the 7th-grade decrease by 24...
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UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti …
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In this study, I use the timing and eligibility criteria of a large-scale conditional cash transfer program in Bolivian public schools to identify the efect of the program on adults’ labor supply. I find that adult females increase their labor supply due to the program, mostly through...
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Women are more likely than men to work in the informal sector and to drop out of the labor force for a time, such as after childbirth, and to be impeded by social norms from working in the formal sector. This work pattern undermines productivity, increases women's vulnerability to income shocks,...
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UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti …
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In this paper, we develop a three-period gender-based Overlapping Generations (OLG) model of economic growth for Côte d …’Ivoire by endogenizing life expectancy and linking growth and poverty. We then calibrate the model using the country …-specific data to illustrate the role of public policies in the model, and its implications for long-term growth, gender equality …
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out of poverty have been recorded in a wide array of literature, the employment outcome of participating in a microcredit … program as a pathway to poverty reduction has been studied much less. Using two waves of longitudinal data on over 2000 … participants and raised the potential for income growth that contributed to poverty reduction. …
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This paper examines the impact of severe wildfire events on Bolivia's poverty and labor market outcomes. We use a panel … Interactive Fixed Effects Counterfactual Estimator, we estimate the causal effects of severe wildfire events on poverty, household … per-capita income, and the agricultural sector. We find a significant short-term increase in poverty explained by a …
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Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes are widespread in developing countries. We focus on one such … administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National … performance of an anti-poverty programme - such as higher NREGA participation of rural households - would be misleading because it …
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