In a series of papers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Amartya Sen coined the phrase 'missing women' to refer to the number of females that have died as a result of discriminatory treatment in the access to health und nutrition in parts of the developing world. He estimated then that the...

In a series of papers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Amartya Sen coined the phrase 'missing women' to refer to the number of females that have died as a result of discriminatory treatment in the access to health und nutrition in parts of the developing world. He estimated then that the...

We investigate the geographical and socioeconomic determinants of childhood undernutrition in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia, three neighboring countries in Southern Africa using the 1992 Demographic and Health Surveys. We estimate models of undernutrition jointly for the three countries to...

Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents evidence against the existence of convergence in global poverty rates despite convergence in household mean income levels and the close linkage between income growth and poverty...