programs. -- Afghanistan ; food security ; conflict ; nutrition ; poverty ; spatial distribution …

fluctuations, raising the incidence of poverty. Drawing on micro-level data from South Africa and Tanzania, we examine the … that reducing consumption volatility would have on aggregate poverty. We then discuss coverage of consumption insurance …

children. The impacts are analyzed in terms of monetary (food) poverty, nutrition, education, child labor and access to health … services of children. According to simulations, food poverty among children would have increased from 41% to 51%, with a … included (leakage). These identification errors, which increase in proportion with the extremity of poverty, reduce the impact …

This chapter studies the interface in poor countries of population growth, rural poverty, and deterioration of the …

This paper demonstrates that well-established biases in decision making under uncertainty can generate poverty traps. A … erroneously undervalue profitable investments, and ii) poverty increases the magnitude of these investment errors. The model … predicts that poverty is perpetuated by inducing poor individuals to underinvest in profitable opportunities to a greater …

Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use …

Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the causal effects of education on freedom of spouse choice …