Documentos e informes

Expectations Set High : Understanding Reservation Wages in North Macedonia (Inglés)

The objectives of this study are to understand the determinants of reservation wages and measure the gap between reservation and market wages in North Macedonia. The study makes use of recently collected...

Conflict, Household Victimization, and Welfare: Does the Perpetrator Matter? : Conflict, Household Victimization, and Welfare: Does the Perpetrator Matter? (Inglés)

This paper studies the relationship between conflict and household welfare by using a detailed panel data set of household victimization across the most conflict-affected regions in Nigeria between 2010...

Broken Promises: Evaluating an Incomplete Cash Transfer Program (Inglés)

Interventions in highly insecure and fragile contexts are always confronted with the latent risk of not being able to implement the program as intended. Despite its high policy relevance, little is known...

Impact of International Migration on Labor Supply in Nepal (Inglés)

This paper analyzes the differential impact of migration on labor supply of the left-behind household members in Nepal, where international migration for employment, predominantly a male phenomenon, increased...

Fiscal Incidence in Moldova: A Commitment to Equity Analysis (Inglés)

This paper uses methods developed by the Commitment to Equity Institute and data from the Household Budget Survey to assess the effects of government taxation and social spending on poverty and inequality...

Poverty, Vulnerability, and Household Coping Strategies during the 2015–16 Recession in Belarus (Inglés)

This paper examines the impact of the recent recession in Belarus on poverty and broader measures of household welfare and compares the recent recession episode to previous economic crises in Belarus...

RUSMOD - A Tool for Distributional Analysis in the Russian Federation (Inglés)

Informal Employment and Worker's Well-Being in the Russian Federation : Informal Employment and Worker’s Well-Being in the Russian Federation (Inglés)

This paper finds that informal workers are more likely to have inferior work conditions, but do not necessarily report worse subjective well-being. Starting with lower wages, but also with less regularity...

Evaluating the Accuracy of Homeowners’ Self-Assessed Rent in Metropolitan Lima (Inglés)

Attributing a rental value to homeowners’ dwellings is essential in different contexts, including poverty and inequality analysis, the compilation of national accounts, consumer price indexes, and estimation...

Can Taxes Help Ensure a Fair Globalization? (Inglés)

This paper analyzes whether taxation can be successfully used to reduce the incidence of labor informality and achieve higher equality in a globalized economy. To this purpose, it develops a two-area model:...

A Novel Approach to the Automatic Designation of Predefined Census Enumeration Areas and Population Sampling Frames : A Case Study in Somalia (Inglés)

Enumeration areas are the operational geographic units for the collection, dissemination, and analysis of census data and are often used as a national sampling frame for various types of surveys. Traditionally...

Measuring Inequality of Access : Modeling Physical Remoteness in Nepal (Inglés)

Simple linear distances between origin and destination poorly describe travel in Nepal, where rugged terrain,underdeveloped transportation infrastructure, and diverse vegetation heavily influence favorable...

Housing, Imputed Rent, and Households' Welfare (Inglés)

Housing is the largest durable good consumed by households. As such, any consumption-based measure of welfare, to be comprehensive, must include the value of the flow of services households derive from...

Where They Live : District-Level Measures of Poverty, Average Consumption, and the Middle Class in Central Asia (Inglés)

Rapid economic growth over the past two decades lifted millions of people out of poverty in Central Asia. But the uneven spread of prosperity left many communities struggling to catch up. To support lagging...

Welfare Impact of Value-Added Tax Reform : The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Inglés)

The adoption of the value-added tax the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2012 led to price increases that are thought to adversely affect the welfare of most Congolese households. To date, research has...

The Redistributive Effects of Fiscal Policy in Mali and Niger (Inglés)

This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing in Mali (by 2.4 percentage points) and Niger (2.5 percentage points). This is a result...

Estimating Poverty in India without Expenditure Data : A Survey-to-Survey Imputation Approach (Inglés)

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The method utilizes expenditure data from 2004-05, 2009–10, and 2011–12 to impute household...

Unfortunate Moms and Unfortunate Children : Impact of the Nepali Civil War on Women's Stature and Intergenerational Health (Inglés)

This paper analyzes the long-term health impacts of Nepal's 1996–2006 civil conflict. It exploits the heterogeneity in conflict intensity across villages and birth cohorts to document long-term health...

International Migration and Household Well-Being : Evidence from Uzbekistan (Inglés)

As one of the most pivotal ways that labor markets adjust to changing economic conditions, international migration is never far from the center of the national discussion in Uzbekistan. This paper summarizes...

Impact of the West African Ebola Epidemic on Agricultural Production and Rural Welfare : Evidence from Liberia (Inglés)

The 2014–15 Ebola epidemic took a devastating human and economic toll on three West African countries, of which Liberia was perhaps the hardest hit. The pathways through which the crisis affected economic...