Documentos e informes
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Improving the Quality of Survey Estimates from Longitudinal Studies : An Application to LSMS Panel Surveys (Inglés)
Longitudinal surveys are an invaluable source for analyzing the current state of and changes in human populations over time. However, maintaining the accuracy of estimates from a panel sample becomes more...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS11026 Fecha del documento: 8 de enero de 2025 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Falorsi,Piero,Righi,Paolo,Giulia Ponzini
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Coping or Hoping ? Livelihood Diversification and Food Insecurity in the COVID-19 Pandemic (Inglés)
This paper examines the impact of livelihood diversification on food insecurity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis uses household panel data from Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria in which the first...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS11014 Fecha del documento: 7 de enero de 2025 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Furbush,Ann M.,Josephson,Anna,Talip Kilic,Michler,Jeffrey D.
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The Mismeasure of Weather : Using Remotely Sensed Earth Observation Data in Economic Contexts (Inglés)
The availability of weather data from remotely sensed Earth observation data has reduced the cost of including weather variables in econometric models. Weather variables are common instrumental variables...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS11015 Fecha del documento: 7 de enero de 2025 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Josephson,Anna,Michler,Jeffrey D.,Talip Kilic,Siobhan Murray
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A Longitudinal Cross-Country Dataset on Agricultural Productivity and Welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa (Inglés)
Since 2008, the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study–Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) program has supported the collection of nationally representative, longitudinal, multi-topic...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10976 Fecha del documento: 18 de noviembre de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Thomas Patrick Bentze,Philip Randolph Wollburg
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Yielding Insights : Machine Learning-Driven Imputations to Filling Agricultural Data Gaps (Inglés)
This paper addresses the challenge of missing crop yield data in large-scale agricultural surveys, where crop-cutting, the most accurate method for yield measurement, is often limited due to cost constraints...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10964 Fecha del documento: 4 de noviembre de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ismael Yacoubou Djima,Marco Tiberti,Talip Kilic
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Measuring Poverty in Tanzania : Comparison of Diary and Recall Approaches to Food Consumption Data Collection (Inglés)
Consumption data from household surveys continue to be the main source for poverty and inequality statistics in low- and middle-income countries. Although recent research has demonstrated that the choice...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10871 Fecha del documento: 19 de agosto de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Akuffo Amankwah,Darcey Jeanne Genou Johnson,Josephine Ofori Adofo,Maryam Gul,Amparo Palacios-Lopez
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Imputing Poverty Indicators without Consumption Data : An Exploratory Analysis (Inglés)
Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated, or display inconsistencies over time in poorer countries. To address these data challenges...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10867 Fecha del documento: 14 de agosto de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Hai-Anh H. Dang,Talip Kilic,Ksenia Abanokova,Gero Carletto
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Should Farm Input Subsidy Programs Target Poor or Non-Poor Farmers ? Evidence from Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program (Inglés)
This paper addresses the question of whether farm input subsidy programs should be targeted at non-poor farmers instead of poor farmers, using a two-wave, nationally representative panel data from Malawi...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10860 Fecha del documento: 24 de julio de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Francis Addeah Darko
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Profitability of Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa : Evidence from Malawi (Inglés)
This paper estimates the profitability of inorganic fertilizer use in maize production in Malawi. It employs a two-wave, nationally representative panel of data on smallholder households and plots to estimate...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10859 Fecha del documento: 24 de julio de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Francis Addeah Darko,Ricker-Gilbert,Jacob,Talip Kilic
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Making Time Count : A Machine Learning Approach to Predict Time Use in Low-Income Countries from Physical Activity Tracking Data (Inglés)
Understanding men’s and women’s time use is a key factor in addressing issues and formulating policies related to division of labor, domestic work, and related gender disparities. However, obtaining data...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10835 Fecha del documento: 28 de junio de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Mulder,Joris,Hocuk,Seyit,Talip Kilic,Zezza,Alberto,Kumar,Pradeep
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Never Too Young to Dream Big : Measuring Youth Aspirations in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Inglés)
This study explores the factors shaping the aspirations of youths in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria, specifically focusing on their academic goals; science, technology, engineering, or mathematics career...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10816 Fecha del documento: 24 de junio de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Valentina Costa,Ivette Contreras,Amparo Palacios-Lopez
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Household Business Performance in Ghana : The Role of Personality Traits and Gender Role Attitudes (Inglés)
The informal sector contributes significantly to the total output and employment of low-income countries. While women-owned businesses feature strongly in these informal environments, they are generally...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10804 Fecha del documento: 13 de junio de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Owoo,Nkechi S.,Akuffo Amankwah,Pauline Castaing,Amparo Palacios-Lopez
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Comparative Impacts of Input Subsidies, Irrigation Investments, and Social Cash Transfers on Food and Nutrition Security in Malawi (Inglés)
This study examines the impact of farm input subsidies, food and cash transfers, and irrigation investments on the dietary diversity, food consumption scores, and coping strategy index in Malawi. Despite...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10778 Fecha del documento: 20 de mayo de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Matita,Mirriam,Zingwe,David,Dizon,Felipe Jr Fadullon
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Closing the Gaps : The Role of Screening Questions and Self-Reporting in Measuring Women’s and Youths’ Employment and Work (Inglés)
Can alternative survey methods address the underreporting of women’s and youths’ labor market outcomes, and thus improve the measurement of the underlying gender- and age-based gaps? This paper addresses...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10773 Fecha del documento: 16 de mayo de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Contreras Gonzalez,Ivette Maria,Dinarte Diaz,Lelys Ileana,Palacios-Lopez,Amparo,Costa,Valentina,Romero Esteban,Steffanny
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Using Survey-to-Survey Imputation to Fill Poverty Data Gaps at a Low Cost : Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment (Inglés)
Survey data on household consumption are often unavailable or incomparable over time in many low- and middle-income countries. Based on a unique randomized survey experiment implemented in Tanzania, this...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10738 Fecha del documento: 26 de marzo de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Dang,Hai-Anh H.,Kilic,Talip,Hlasny,Vladimir,Hlasny,Vladimir,Abanokova,Ksenia,Carletto,Calogero
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Climate Immobility Traps : A Household-Level Test (Inglés)
The complex relationship between climate shocks, migration, and adaptation hampers a rigorous understanding of the heterogeneous mobility outcomes of farm households exposed to climate risk. To unpack...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10724 Fecha del documento: 18 de marzo de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Letta,Marco,Montalbano,Pierluigi,Paolantonio,Adriana
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Does Unequal Tax Burden Contribute to Women-Owned Businesses Leaving the Tax Net ? (Inglés)
This study investigates gender disparities in the tax burden in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, using data on 2,320 taxpayers for 2011 and 2012. A quantile regression analysis is employed to control for firm characteristics...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10712 Fecha del documento: 27 de febrero de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ambel,Alemayehu A.,Woldeyes,Firew Bekele
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Presumptive Tax on Small and Microenterprises with a Gender Lens in Ethiopia (Inglés)
Governments often use simplified business tax systems, such as presumptive tax regimes, to register and tax small and microenterprises. Despite concerns about how such regimes could disproportionately...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10707 Fecha del documento: 20 de febrero de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Komatsu,Hitomi
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Are Unit Values Reliable Proxies for Prices ? Implications of Better Price Data for Household Consumption Measurement in a Low-Income Context (Inglés)
Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys are key to consumption-based monetary poverty measurement. In the absence of market price surveys that are linked to Household Consumption and Expenditure...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10698 Fecha del documento: 8 de febrero de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Alimi,Omoniyi Babatunde,Vundru,Wilbert Drazi,Kilic,Talip
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Recording the Time Divide : A Comparative Study of Smartphone- and Recall-Based Approaches to Time Use Measurement (Inglés)
Based on a randomized survey experiment in Malawi, this study examines how innovative techniques in time use data collection could sidestep measurement concerns with traditional recall-based time use measurement...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10695 Fecha del documento: 7 de febrero de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kilic,Talip,Koolwal,Gayatri B.,Vundru,Wilbert Drazi,Daum,Thomas Lothar Georg,Buchwald,Hannes,Seymour,Greg,Mvula,Peter Mathias,Munthali,Alister Chaundumuka,Kachinjika,Monice