its components on a unique data set this paper demonstrates that in rural India household vulnerability is most explained …Using Vulnerability as Expected Utility (VEU) analysis that permits the decomposition of household vulnerability into … by poverty and idiosyncratic components. So far as risk coping strategies go households rely heavily on informal …

quantify household vulnerability in rural India in 1999 and 2006, investigate the determinants of ex post poverty as well as ex …Using a unique panel data for rural India for the periods 1999 and 2006, this paper models vulnerability to poverty. We … shocks. Household vulnerability across the distribution of such vulnerability is also investigated. A number of factors …

Female labor force participation increased worldwide between 1990 and 2015. In India, it decreased 22% from a low rate … employment for rural households. I document the following. The employment guarantee subsidizes household earnings, increasing … household consumption. The subsidy replaces women’s role as added or insurance workers, crowding out their labor force …

growth in rural India. This paper attempts to fill this lacuna by providing certainty equivalent growth of consumption in 14 … major states of India over the period 1958-1997, corresponding to NSS Rounds 13th to 53rd. The extant debates around poverty … that certainty equivalent consumption growth in rural India has been much lower than average real per capita consumption …

public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large … household datasets constructed with National Sample Survey (NSS) data, 50th round in 1993-1994 and 61st round in 2004-2005. The … evaluating the effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. We found significant and negative effects of household participation in RPW and …

Vulnerability and poverty are distinct yet highly correlated. Using data sets extracted from Vietnam Household Living …