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Should We Track Migrant Households When Collecting Household Panel Data?:Household Relocation, Economic Mobility and Attrition Biases in the Rural Philippines

Fuwa, Nobuhiko - 2010

Based on household panel data that tracked migrant households (with an additional survey cost of 17 percent), this article describes behavior of household relocation and quantifies the extent of attrition biases in estimating the determinants of percapita household consumption and of its growth...

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Borrower Empowerment and Savings: A Two-stage Micro-finance Scheme

Roy Chowdhury, Prabal - 2007

We consider group-lending with joint liability where the provision of loans is conditional on prior savings. In a dynamic model with moral hazard and endogenous group-formation, we examine the effect of such schemes on the allocation of loans between strongly and weakly empowered borrowers. We...

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Characterizing poverty and vulnerability in rural Haiti: a multilevel decomposition approach

Echevin, Damien - 2011

This paper aims at characterizing poverty and vulnerability in Haiti based on a unique survey conducted in 2007 in rural areas. Using two-level modelling of consumption/income, we assess the impact of both observable and unobservable idiosyncratic and covariate shocks on households’ economic...

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Vulnerability to asset-poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

Echevin, Damien - 2011

This paper presents a methodology to measure vulnerability to asset-poverty. Using repeated cross-section data, age cohort decomposition techniques focusing on second-order moments can be used to identify and estimate the variance of shocks on assets and, therefore, the probability of being poor...

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Minimum Wage Legislation and Economic Growth: Channels and Effects

Mo, Pak Hung - 2011

Despite decades of experience and research, the effects of minimum wage legislation (MWL) on long-run economic performance have rarely been studied since Stigler’s (1946) classic exposition about the shortcomings of MWL. In this study, we use a novel method to estimate the magnitude and...

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Rural class differentiation in Nigeria: Theory and practice - a quantitative approach in the case of Nupeland

Kohnert, Dirk - 1979

Northern Nigeria in 1976, the proposed model reveals the early stages of a rural capitalist development, notably among rice …

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Income inequality in rural Pakistan-sources and decompositions

Shams, Khadija - 2012

This paper analyses income inequalities in rural Pakistan. Using household survey data, we decompose income inequality according to its different sources. We calculate Gini coefficients and Theil indices both within and across provinces and districts. A partial correlation analysis extends our...

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What does a well-being perspective add to our understanding of poverty?

Shams, Khadija - 2012

-being approach closely depicts the idea of capability poverty in terms of the level education and health which both matter … emerging field of happiness economics with development studies. We believe that this paper fills an important gap in the … individuals’ own valuation of their well-being. Since poverty is often linked with human development, or the lack of it, this …

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Production Efficiency and Agricultural Technologies in the Ethiopian Agriculture

Mariam, Yohannes; Coffin, Garth - 1993

technologies. Development strategies should examine the mixes of production technologies that may contribute to increases in …

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