improving households' risk-management through income diversification. The intervention targeted agricultural households exposed …

, within 70 countries at various levels of development, there is a positive relationship between income per capita and the … fully accounted for by (a) relatively higher ICT prices in low-income countries and (b) industrial composition …

s. This contributed to the well-known increase in the top 1 percent's share of total income, exacerbating rising … the asymmetries in the association, tests for robustness to alternative income definitions, and discusses the potential …

This paper develops a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility and welfare …. Individual income is assumed to follow a stochastic process with two (unobserved) components, component representing measurement … error or transitory income shocks and an Autoregressive (AR(1)) component representing persistent changes in income. The …

This paper extends the micro evidence on the impact of income shocks on civil conflict using data across Nigerian … states over the past decade. The paper uses an innovative empirical strategy matching household survey, oil production, and … domestic and international price data to capture three separate channels linking income changes to conflict. Price increases of …

. More specifically, it seeks to establish the linkages by which government effectiveness affects per capita income, via its … instruments for human capital in cross-country regressions of per capita income. The results identify a significant and positive … effect of human capital on per capita income levels, and partially resolves the inconsistency between macro- and micro …

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of … the authors in these two countries allows experimental estimates of the income gains from migration by comparing the …

contributed to raise purchase prices and the cash income of vanilla farmers. But the effect on farmers' consumption remains small …