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There is no consensus on how to measure social welfare and inequality when households have different needs. As we show, a dilemma emerges between holding households responsible for their needs or compensating them. This dilemma is of first-order importance for social welfare, but generally plays...
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, and in particular to sea-level rise and its associated risks. We construct poverty and hardship profiles for households on …
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Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of … a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor …
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pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also show that the household formation responses draw some unemployed … to getaccess to resources without support from unemployment compensation. Analysing a household survey from 1995, we find … that the household formation response of the unemployed is the critical way in which they assure access to resources. In …
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Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices … consumption survey data. We propose an alternative approach that identifies poverty from consumer behaviour, based on the notion … higher levels of poverty in eastern India, and generally, smaller reductions in poverty from 2005 to 2010. Our poverty …
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financial inclusion in Pune, a large city of India based on a household survey at an identified slum area. Empirical findings of …
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It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family, because of the common shocks and reflection problems. We make use of a novel identification strategy and unique data in order to gain some purchase on this problem. We employ data from the universe of children born in...
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We investigate the determinants and extent of labor market discrimination toward people with physical disabilities using a large scale field experiment. Applications were randomly sent to 1477 private firms advertising open positions. We find that average callback rates of disabled and...
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