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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 …
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included, inconsistencies between different data sources could interfere with comparable poverty estimates. We test the … performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Colombia … that we can reasonably impute poverty rates using an older household income survey and a more recent ProGres dataset for …
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that reduce growth and thwart poverty reduction efforts. The argument of this paper is that there are various possible …
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This paper uses standard fiscal incidence analysis to study how much income redistribution and poverty reduction are … heterogeneity in the income inequality and poverty-reducing power of LAC fiscal systems. While all LAC fiscal systems reduce income … inequality, fiscal systems in nine LAC countries are poverty-increasing, and this startling characteristic has not improved over …
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A key challenge for policymakers is how to design methods to select beneficiaries of social programs when income is volatile and the target population is dynamic. We evaluate a traditional static proxy-means test (PMT) and three policy-relevant alternatives. We use a unique panel dataset of a...
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; and v that guarantee consistent assessments of social welfare, inequality and poverty embodied in a given income …
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