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Household Access to Microcredit and Children's Food Security in Rural Malawi: A Gender Perspective

Hazarika, Gautam; Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women …'s relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to …

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Gender Differences in the Effects of Vocational Training: Constraints on Women and Drop-Out Behavior

Cho, Yoon Y.; Kalomba, Davie; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We provide experimental evidence on the effects of vocational and entrepreneurial training for Malawian youth, in an environment where access to schooling and formal sector employment is extremely low. We track a large fraction of program drop-outs – a common phenomenon in the training...

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Climate Vulnerability, Communities' Resilience and Child Labour

Boutin, Delphine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and communities' resilience. Both, participation to...

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The Evolution of Rotation Group Bias: Will the Real Unemployment Rate Please Stand Up?

Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre; Niu, Xiaotong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper documents that rotation group bias – the tendency for labor force statistics to vary systematically by month in sample in labor force surveys – in the Current Population Survey (CPS) has worsened considerably over time. The estimated unemployment rate for earlier rotation groups...

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Empirical Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures, and Evidence

Ramos, Xavi; Van de gaer, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures, and point out the problems and choices researchers face when implementing these measures. Our analysis identifies and...

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Does Employer Learning Vary by Schooling Attainment? The Answer Depends on How Career Start Dates Are Defined

Light, Audrey; McGee, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We demonstrate that empirical evidence of employer learning is sensitive to how one defines the career start date and, in turn, measures cumulative work experience. Arcidiacono, Bayer, and Hizmo (2010) find evidence of employer learning for high school graduates but not for college graduates,...

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Die Messung von Armut unter Berücksichtigung regional divergierender Lebenshaltungskosten und öffentlicher Leistungen

Hillringhaus, Tilman; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Bislang beschränkt sich die Messung von Armut und Ungleichheit in der deutschen Armutsberichterstattung im Wesentlichen …

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Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Ludwig, Jens; Miller, Douglas L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program’s effects on health and schooling. In 1965 the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) provided technical assistance to the 300 poorest counties to develop Head Start proposals. The result was a large and...

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The Impact of Tax and Transfer Systems on Children in the European Union

Corak, Miles; Lietz, Christine; Sutherland, Holly - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal … them? And third, what impact do measures of public resources for children have on child poverty rates? …

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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international … inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency, variable definitions and measurement, changing population and …

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