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...

Survey data on household consumption are often unavailable or incomparable over time in many low- and middle-income countries. Based on a unique randomized survey experiment implemented in Tanzania, this study offers new and rigorous evidence demonstrating that survey-to-survey imputation can...

This study investigates evidence of measurement errors among households with the highest expenditures in eleven harmonized national household-expenditure surveys from five Arab countries: Egypt 2008, 2010 and 2012, Jordan 2006 and 2010, Palestine 2007, 2010 and 2011, Sudan 2009, and Tunisia 2005...

This report assesses trends in perceptions, values and opinions of Palestinians regarding socio-economic conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory. Using a set of Gallup World Poll and World Values Survey indicators of Palestinian residents' perceptions and values, we find that...

Invasions of non-indigenous organisms have long been linked to trade, but the contribution of individual trade pathways remains poorly understood, because species are not observed immediately upon arrival and the number of species arriving annually is unknown. Species interception records may...

Many state public commissions have deregulated their utility markets. However, evidence of welfare or efficiency improvements under deregulation is ambiguous. It is also unclear why different states adopt consumer choice, price caps, sliding-scale plans, or retain rate-of-return regulation. This...

This study evaluates the progress of opportunities for early childhood development (ECD) across Palestinian governorates under the Israeli occupation, from 1995 to 2014. Five statewide-representative partially harmonized demographic surveys – for years 1995, 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2014 – are...

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...