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Autor:
Jyotsna Jalan, Arijit Sen
Publikováno v:
Indian Economic Review
We study the Covid pandemic in the Indian state of Kerala, and document the state's remarkable success in containing the pandemic's first wave. By identifying Kerala's initial conditions when it was hit by the pandemic, and different components of th
Domestic violence is common, socially and economically very costly, yet widely accepted in many countries. Can participatory theater—a novel cultural intervention—reduce its occurrence? Through a survey that the authors conducted in 92 villages i
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https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-9680
https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-9680
Publikováno v:
Journal of Development Effectiveness. 10:462-481
The lack of adequate measures is often an impediment to robust policy evaluation. We discuss three approaches to measurement and data usage that have the potential to improve the way we conduct imp...
Awareness and the demand for environmental quality: survey evidence on drinking water in urban India
Publikováno v:
Environment and Development Economics. 14:665-692
The demand for environmental quality is often presumed to be low in developing countries due to poverty. Less attention has been paid to the possibility that lack of awareness about adverse health effects of environmental pollution could also keep th
Autor:
Eswaran Somanathan, Jyotsna Jalan
Publikováno v:
Journal of Development Economics. 87:14-28
To what extent does information affect the demand for environmental quality? A randomly selected group of households in an Indian city were informed whether or not their drinking water had tested positive for fecal contamination using a simple, inexp
Autor:
Jyotsna Jalan, Martin Ravallion
Publikováno v:
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics. 21:19-30
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Estimating the benefit incidence of an antipoverty program by propensity score matching, conducted between 1997 and 1998, in Argentina. The study observed that the averag
Autor:
Jyotsna Jalan, Martin Ravallion
Publikováno v:
Journal of Applied Econometrics. 17:329-346
How important are neighbourhood endowments of physical and human capital in explaining diverging fortunes over time for otherwise identical households in a developing rural economy? To answer this question we develop an estimable micro model of consu
Publikováno v:
Oxford Economic Papers. 52:651-669
associated with lower carbon emissions at given average incomes. We also confirm that economic growth generally comes with higher emissions. Thus our results suggest that trade-offs exist between climate control (on the one hand) and both social equi
Autor:
Jyotsna Jalan, Martin Ravallion
Publikováno v:
Journal of Development Studies. 36:82-99
We define ‘transient poverty’ as the component of time‐mean consumption poverty at household level that is directly attributable to variability in consumption; this can be thought of as a measure of vulnerability to falling consumption. The non
Autor:
Jyotsna Jalan, Martin Ravallion
Publikováno v:
Are the Poor Less Well-Insured? Evidence on Vulnerability to Income Risk in Rural China
The authors test how well consumption is insured against income risk in a panel of sampled households in rural China. They estimate the risk insurance models by Generalized Method of Moments, treating income and household size as endogenous. Insuranc