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 …

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 …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

This paper examines the allocation of resources of poverty rates within households in Suriname. To this end we employ a …

examine the impact of natural disasters on Indonesian household welfare (consumption and poverty) using the Indonesian Family … devastating impacts of disasters and in lessening households’ vulnerability to poverty. The policy recommendations resulting from …

The paper investigates the definition of equity-regarding poverty measures when there are different household types in … the population. It derives the implications of a between-type regressive transfer principle for poverty measures, for the … choice of poverty lines and for the measurement of living standard. The role of equivalence scales which are popular in …

long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal …) longitudinal poverty. The results reveal considerable differences across EU countries regarding both the level and the structure of … the population at high risk of chronic material deprivation and longitudinal poverty. Finally, each country's population …

between-district inequalities to national inequality and examines the relationship between household poverty and inequality … a significant effect on household poverty, but with varying signs. We surmise that the variation in signs is as a result … of the state of economic activity and factors that affect both poverty and inequality …