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Seebohm Rowntree and the Post-War Poverty Puzzle

Bailey, Roy E; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

percentage of households in poverty. He attributed the bulk of this decline to government welfare reforms enacted during and … after the War. Some observers have been uneasy about these striking results, especially with the rediscovery of poverty in … the 1960s. In this paper we re-examine the surviving records from the 1950 survey, making the poverty line more consistent …

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Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls’ dropout, pregnancy, and marriage but not sexually transmitted infection (STI). The government’s HIV curriculum, which stresses abstinence until marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs...

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Government Cash Transfers, Household Consumption, And Poverty Alleviation - The Case Of Russia

Richter, Kaspar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

The paper develops a new approach to measuring the impact of government cash transfers on poverty alleviation that … of changes in government cash benefits on poverty rates in Russia during 1994 to 1998. The methodological contribution is … changes in the expenditure distribution excluding cash transfers on movements in poverty rates. At least 30% of the rise in …

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Poverty and the Welfare State in Inter-war London

Bailey, Roy E; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

In this paper we re-examine poverty among working class households in inter-war London using the newly computerized …–31. First, we examine how the use of different poverty lines affects the number of households found to be in poverty. We then … analyse the effects of the inter-war social security system in relieving poverty. Finally, we estimate what difference it …

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Trade, Trade Policy and Poverty: What Are The Links?

Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper traces the links from trade shocks to poverty in developing countries. It considers the determinants of … household and individual welfare (including potential differences between household members) and then identifies six trade-to-poverty …

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Customary Norms, Inheritance, and Human Capital: Evidence from a Reform of the Matrilineal System in Ghana

La Ferrara, Eliana; Milazzo, Annamaria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper studies the effects of descent rules on human capital accumulation. We exploit a policy experiment in Ghana that introduced minimum quotas for the land that parents should devolve on their children. This policy differentially affected ethnic groups depending on their descent rules:...

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What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes Around the World?

Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education investments, employment patterns and other features of the of the economic lives of the “middle classes” defined as those whose daily consumption per capita is between $2 and...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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A Theory of Employment Guarantees: Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns

Basu, Arnab K; Chau, Nancy H; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper develops a theory of employment guarantees when labor markets are imperfect and when the credibility of … poverty! …

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Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco

Devoto, Florencia; Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study the demand for household water connections in urban Morocco, and the effect of such connections on household welfare. In the northern city of Tangiers, among homeowners without a private connection to the city’s water grid, a random subset was offered a simplified procedure to...

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