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Identifying conflict and violence in micro-level surveys

Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - 2010

and household welfare. Special attention is paid to methodological issues on how to design a module and operationalize … and discuss a generic household module that can be easily inserted into future socio-economic surveys implemented in …

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The long-run labor-market consequences of civil war: Evidence from the Shining Path in Peru

Galdo, Jose - 2010

This study exploits district-level variation in the timing and intensity of civil war violence to investigate whether early-life exposure to civil wars affects labor-market outcomes later in life. In particular, we examine the impacts of armed conflict in Peru, a country that experienced the...

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Item Non-Response on Income and Wealth Questions

Riphahn, Regina T.; Serfling, Oliver - 2002

After reviewing the literature on item non-response we focus on three issues: First, is there significant heterogeneity in item non-response across financial questions and in the association of covariates with item non-response across outcomes? Second, can the informational value of surveys be...

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Household survey data for research on well-being and behavior in Central Asia

Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir; Kroeger, Antje; … - 2012

. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household - level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan …

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Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India

Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households is significantly higher than non-scheduled households....

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The Effects of Conflict on Fertility: Evidence from the Genocide in Rwanda

Krähnert, Kati; Brück, Tilman; Di Maio, Michele; … - 2019

This paper analyzes the fertility effects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. We study the effects of violence on both the hazard of having a child in the early post-genocide period and on the total number of post-genocide births up to 15 years following the conflict. We use individual-level data...

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The British household panel survey and its income data

Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2010

This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on … aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net … household income are derived. The BHPS net household income definition is modelled on that used in Britain's official personal …

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Perspectives on Poverty in Europe

Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2018

I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and the future direction of EU-level anti-poverty actions....

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Misreporting of Government Transfers: How Important Are Survey Design and Geography?

Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2018

Recent studies linking household surveys to administrative records reveal high rates of misreporting of program receipt …. We use the FoodAPS survey to examine whether the findings of these studies of general household surveys using one or two … the shorter recall period of FoodAPS. Misreporting varies with household characteristics and between interviewers. Second …

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Combining Administrative and Survey Data to Improve Income Measurement

Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2019

We describe methods of combining administrative and survey data to improve the measurement of income. We begin by decomposing the total survey error in the mean of survey reports of dollars received from a government transfer program. We decompose this error into three parts, generalized...

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