Does social assistance tailored to augmenting workers’ budgets or their human capital improve workers’ lot several years down the road? In Arab countries, how have the recipients fared compared to non-recipients, and has the financial versus in-kind form of assistance mattered? The Labor...

This study assesses the evolution of earnings across different groups of workers during Russia’s 2000–2013 oil boom, and amidst the 2014–2015 oil bust and a trade war. Unconditional quantile regressions and growth incidence curves are applied to nine household surveys for 2000–2016 to...

Various challenges are thought to render female-headed households (FHHs) vulnerable to poverty in the Arab region. Yet, previous studies have mixed results and despite the availability of cross-sectional data, the absence of household panel survey data hinders analysis of poverty dynamics. We...

Various challenges are thought to render female-headed households (FHHs) vulnerable to poverty in the Arab region. Yet, previous studies have had mixed results and the absence of household panel survey data hinders analysis of poverty dynamics. This paper addresses these challenges by proposing...

Social capital is both an input and an output of individuals' economic choices, but relatively little is known about social capital investment, particularly in individuals' old age. With a premise that SC is an individual-level concept in which individuals purposely invest, we estimate elderly...

Societal allocation of goods and resources as a means of co-opting potential challengers in authoritarian regimes has received widespread support in political science research. We find evidence for this argument in the case of social welfare spending in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Province...