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attainment and health in Indonesia, and compare it with the effect of chronic poverty. We also investigate whether there are any … no significant health effects of orphanhood. Meanwhile, chronically poor children have worse health and education … outcomes. Among young children, the adverse effect of maternal orphanhood on education is significantly worse than that of …
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In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …
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Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy's role in determining their efficacy. First, exploiting an RD design, we show that receipt of information increased household rice receipts by 30 percentage points. Second, we...
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We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country. As source of variation we use changes in the eligibility criteria for receipt of an unconditional cash transfer in Ecuador. Two years after families lost the transfer, which...
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