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Matching Household Surveys with DHS Data to Create Nationally Representative Time Series of Poverty: An Application to Bolivia

Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009

In many developing countries, there does not exist a time series of nationally repre- sentative household budget or income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This...

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Vulnerability to Downside Risk and Poverty in Vietnam

Povel, Felix - 2010

In this paper we propose a new measure of vulnerability called vulnerability to downside risk. The relevant benchmark for this new measure is the current level of wellbeing of a household as opposed to another benchmark such as the poverty line. We argue that this measure adds complementary...

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Pro-Poor Progress in Education in Developing Countries?

Hartgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; Misselhorn, Mark - 2009

Spurred by international commitments and expanded funding at the national and international level, attendance in education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this expansion in enrolments reduced existing inequalities in...

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Perceived Vulnerability to Downside Risk

Povel, Felix - 2010

In this paper we propose an approach to vulnerability called perceived vulnerability to downside risk. We argue that the other concepts of vulnerability, though partially adhering to the focus axiom, do not exclusively consider downside risks in their measures. The reason for this is that most...

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A new inequality-sensitive multidimensional deprivation index (MDI) for dichotomous variables

Espinoza-Delgado, José; Silber, Jacques - 2021

In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure multidimensional deprivation when only dichotomous variables are available to assess deprivation in the various deprivation domains, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a...

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Does Relative Income Matter for the Very Poor? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - 2008

We studied whether relative income has an impact on subjective well-being among extremely poor people. Contrary to the findings in developed countries, where relative income has shown a significant and negative impact on subjective well-being, we cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income...

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Rural Livelihoods, Poverty, and the Millennium Development Goals: Evidence from Ethiopian Survey Data

Bluffstone, Randall; Yesuf, Mahmud; Bushie, Bilisuma; … - 2008

This paper provides an in-depth look at some of the key development issues facing households in Ethiopia, in the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Using household survey data from 2000, 2002, and 2005, we found that Ethiopia is making progress toward some vital MDG goals, but...

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Who cares when you close down? The effects of primary care practice closures on patients

Bischof, Tamara; Kaiser, Boris - 2019

This paper investigates the consequences that patients face when their regular primary care provider closes down her practice, typically due to retirement. We estimate the causal impact of closures on patients' utilization patterns, medical expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice....

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Overweight and obesity in low- and middle income countries: A panel-data analysis

Minos, Dimitrios - 2016

The rather small literature on obesity in developing countries mainly uses descriptive statistics and cross section … analysis to focus on rising income levels as the source of rapidly increasing obesity rates. This paper uses a new panel … the main driver of rising obesity levels. The results of the fixed effects estimation suggest that urbanization and …

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"Eat, my child". Overweight and obesity among children in developing countries

Minos, Dimitrios - 2016

Childhood obesity in developing countries is a topic that hasn't found its way in the economic literature yet. Despite … the fact that obesity rates are rising worldwide and the phenomenon is very present even among the poorest of households …

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