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-term impact on food security, household savings, assets and participation in microfinance. Participant women are less likely to be …
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Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine eligibility. We apply recent advances in multidimensional measurement analysis to develop a straightforward method for summarizing changes in groups of eligibility (screening)...
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Nutritious eating habits contribute to a stronger immune system necessary for prevention and easier recovery from illnesses. A job loss, experienced by millions of Americans during the Covid-19 pandemic, is expected to negatively affect food security of families. This research explores the...
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Food production and distribution is essential for human well-being, but the food sector has experienced a number of difficulties maintaining worker health and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine employment status changes of persons recently employed in the U.S. food sector with...
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This research evaluates the impact on German household labor supply of various subsidy schemes proposed to foster low …-wage employment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate a discrete choice model of household labor supply. On … different policies raising low labor earnings at the individual and household levels. In all cases, the labor supply effect is …
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This paper estimates gender differences in life-cycle impacts across multiple domains of an influential enriched early childhood program targeted toward disadvantaged children that was evaluated by the method of random assignment. We assess the impacts of the program on promoting or alleviating...
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conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply …
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We investigate the impacts of trade liberalization on household behaviors and outcomes in urban China, exploiting …. First, household members worked more, especially in the non-tradable sector. Second, more young adults co-resided with their … parents, and thus household size increased. Third, households saved less. These behaviors significantly buffered the negative …
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RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a … effect of the price shock on household welfare through consumption and wage incomes. Poor rural households suffer significant …
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-age male workers. As such, increases in the minimum wage are associated with increases in household consumption per capita in …
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