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Mobile phone has been widely adopted in developing countries with potential to enhance opportunities for finding employment and business opportunities which builds resilience of rural livelihoods. Although the effect of mobile phones on income has be
Autor:
Adrian Chadi, Clemens Hetschko
Publikováno v:
British Journal of Industrial Relations. 59:279-306
For representative German panel data, we show that voluntary job switching leads to relatively high levels of life satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas the impact of exogenously triggered job changes is ambiguous. Risk aversion interacts
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Journal of Political Economy. 127:560-585
Following the death of Mao in 1976, agrarian decision-making shifted from the collective to individual households, unleashing rapid growth in farm output and unprecedented reductions in poverty. In new data on reform timing in 914 counties, we find a
Autor:
Stefan Dercon
Using micro-level panel data from villages in rural Ethiopia, the paper uses standard decompositions of income changes and develops a new decomposition of poverty changes to analyse the determinants of growth and poverty changes during a period of ec
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Autor:
Alexander Moradi
How well did Kenyans do under colonial rule? It is common sense that Kenyans suffered under exploitative colonial policies. The overall impact, however, is uncertain. This study presents fresh evidence on nutrition and health in colonial Kenya by (1)
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Millennium development goal (MDG) of poverty reduction aims for halving of the head-count ratio over the period 1990-2015. Available studies draw attention to the gap between observed and required growth rates, the difficulties of sustaining the latt
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Autor:
Stefan Dercon, Cesar Calvo
We explore how to measure poverty over time, by focusing on trajectories of poverty rather than poverty at a particular point in time. We consider welfare outcomes over a period in time, consisting of a number of spells. We offer a characterization o
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Autor:
John Knight, Ramani Gunatilaka
This research is among the first to link the literatures on migration and on subjective well-being in developing countries. It poses the question: why do rural-urban migrant households settled in urban China have an average happiness score lower than
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Autor:
Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha
This paper focuses on vulnerability of rural households to poverty when a negative crop shock occurs. Of particular concern is the possibility of some sections experiencing long spells of poverty as a consequence of such shocks. The analysis is based
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Autor:
Antonio Stefano Caria, Paolo Falco
Publikováno v:
Economic Development and Cultural Change. 67:1-28
We investigate the unexplored link between the risk of poverty and happiness in the context of a developing country. Using unique longitudinal data, we estimate workers’ vulnerability to income poverty and find a strong negative relationship betwee