effective policies to facilitate adaptation. This paper presents experimental evidence on a program in rural Nicaragua aimed at …

resources in the analysis of poverty. Most empirical studies of poverty, however, assume an equal sharing of resources between …, only limited attention has been directed towards addressing how sharing assumptions can be incorporated into poverty … female adults and between adults and children affects the incidence and intensity of poverty. The method is consistent with …

rise in income inequality. Poverty has increased sharply with an estimated 18.5% of the population on incomes below the …

extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. We randomly assign an $8.50 incentive to households … after the incentive is removed. The migration rate is 10 percentage points higher in treatment areas a year later, and three … re-migration, and by conducting a new experiment with a migration insurance treatment. We document several pieces of …

different levels of migration frictions. We bring the model to the data for the whole world economy at a 1º times 1º geographic … resolution. We then use the model to quantify the gains from relaxing migration restrictions as well as to describe the evolution … of the distribution of economic activity in the different migration scenarios. Our results indicate that fully …