This paper examines the impact of severe wildfire events on Bolivia's poverty and labor market outcomes. We use a panel … Interactive Fixed Effects Counterfactual Estimator, we estimate the causal effects of severe wildfire events on poverty, household … per-capita income, and the agricultural sector. We find a significant short-term increase in poverty explained by a …

The goal of the welfare state is the redistribution of income in order to reduce poverty and reduce inequality. Income … inequality and relative poverty are often cited as major policy concerns, and are tracked by economists. Economists and policy … makers also value measures of absolute poverty as it more closely tracks the actual well being of the poor. Some studies have …

those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in …

Adolescent girls need to be considered as a special target group by schemes and development programmes. They need a …

the impacts of free monthly access to sanitary pads on girls’ educational outcomes. We find that the number of dropouts … among female students in the 7th-grade decrease by 24 percentage points and the number of girls who pass the upper primary … school-leaving examination increases by 82.8 percent after the treatment. Our results are mainly driven by girls in backward …