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measure the contributions of different migration streams to overall poverty change. An application to Tanzania shows the new …
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Poverty is typically measured as insufficient yearly income or consumption. In practice, however, poverty is marked by seasonality, economic instability, and illiquidity across months. To capture within-year variability, we extend traditional poverty measures to include a temporal dimension....
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of their practical importance for the measurement of inequality and poverty, a large number of methods for the estimation … this paper, we employ German household expenditure data to estimate exact equivalence scales using several parametric … vergleichbar zu machen. Aufgrund ihrer praktischen Relevanz für die Messung von Ungleichheit und Armut wurden etliche Methoden für …
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We compare seven established risk elicitation methods and investigate how they robustly explain eleven kinds of risky behavior with 760 individuals. Risk measures are positively correlated; however, their performance in explaining behavior is heterogeneous and, therefore, difficult to assess ex...
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consumption, impacts long-run human capital development. Using high frequency panel data from early 1990s Tanzania, we estimate a … outcomes if one child's consumption is more seasonal than the other's. We discuss implications for measurement and policy …
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