This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual … consistent with earlier findings, but also reveal several new insights. Specifically, numerous decompositions of the poverty … multidimensional poverty indices. …

the 2006 Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey. Results from instrumental-variables regressions indicate that children …This paper examines the effect of parental disability on school enrollment and educational performance for children in … that either directly support the education of children with disabled parents and/or have policies that support disabled …

Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence … affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor … supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is children aged 7-18 in households in which both parents usually coreside and …