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...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 142162Date: September 25, 2019Author:
Petreski,Marjan ;
Oviedo Silva,Ana Maria ;
Cancho,Cesar A.
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...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 142061Date: September 18, 2019Author:
Kaila,Heidi Kristiina ;
Azad,M Abul Kalam
This paper analyzes the differential
impact of migration on labor supply of the left-behind
household members in Nepal, where international migration
for employment,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 141858Date: September 16, 2019Author:
Phadera,Lokendra
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...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 141859Date: September 16, 2019Author:
Muller,Angelika ;
Pape,Utz Johann ;
Ralston,Laura R.
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...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 141814Date: September 13, 2019Author:
Cojocaru,Alexandru ;
Matytsin,Mikhail ;
Prohnitchi,Valeriu
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...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 141815Date: September 10, 2019Author:
Bornukova,Kateryna ;
Cojocaru,Alexandru ;
Matytsin,Mikhail ;
Shymanovich,Gleb
The authors explore the effects of
decentralization on education and health in Ethiopia using
an original database covering all of the country’s regions
and woredas...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 141915Date: September 1, 2019Author:
Faguet,Jean-Paul ;
Khan,Qaiser M. ;
Kanth,Devarakonda Priyanka
The debate on if and how to connect
humanitarian assistance for refugees with national social
protection systems can elicit polarizing views. Hence, it is
not unusual...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 142185Date: September 1, 2019Author:
Seyfert,Karin ;
Barca,Valentina ;
Gentilini,Ugo ;
Luthria,Manjula M. ;
Abbady,Shereen
Gold production increased substantially
in 2019, providing a strong boost to economic growth. Output
from the country's largest gold mine, Kumtor, rose by
33 percent...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 144596Date: September 1, 2019
Adolescents are among the age groups
most vulnerable to malnutrition and their situation requires
priority attention. However, information on adolescent
nutrition in...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 140971Date: August 21, 2019Author:
Mridha, Malay Kanti ;
Hossain, Mokbul ;
Hassan, Tanvir ;
Sutradhar, Ipsita ;
Bente Kamal, Samiun Nazrin ;
Khan,Akib ;
Ahmed, Nizam Uddin ;
Khondker, Rudaba ;
Mustaphi, Piyali ;
Chowdhury, Ireen A ;
Adams, Alayne M. ;
Hyder,Ziauddin
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...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 141101Date: August 20, 2019Author:
Kim,Yeon Soo ;
Matytsin,Mikhail ;
Freije-Rodriguez,Samuel
Attributing a rental value to
homeowners’ dwellings is essential in different contexts,
including poverty and inequality analysis, the compilation
of national accounts,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 141098Date: August 15, 2019Author:
Ceriani,Lidia ;
Olivieri,Sergio Daniel ;
Ranzani,Marco
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...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 141092Date: August 12, 2019Author:
Langot, François ;
Merola, Rossana ;
Oh, Samil
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...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 140493Date: August 8, 2019Author:
Sarchil Qader ;
Veronique Lefebvre ;
Amy Ninneman ;
Kastelic,Kristen Himelein ;
Pape,Utz Johann ;
Linus Bengstsson ;
Andy Tatem ;
Tomas Bird
Simple linear distances between origin
and destination poorly describe travel in Nepal, where
rugged terrain,underdeveloped transportation infrastructure,
and diverse...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 140353Date: August 6, 2019Author:
Banick,Robert Steven ;
Kawasoe,Yasuhiro
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...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 140352Date: August 6, 2019Author:
Ceriani,Lidia ;
Olivieri,Sergio Daniel ;
Ranzani,Marco
Carbon pricing is increasingly
recognized as an important source of government revenue.
Carbon revenues can be crucial in supporting cost-effective
climate mitigation,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 140766Date: August 1, 2019Author:
Postic,Sébastien ;
Métivier,Clément ;
Alberola, Emilie
Carbon pricing is increasingly
recognized as an important source of government revenue.
Carbon revenues can be crucial in supporting cost-effective
climate mitigation,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 140766Date: August 1, 2019Author:
Postic,Sébastien ;
Métivier,Clément ;
Alberola, Emilie
The coverage of pension systems in the
Africa region is limited to the small segment of the
population in the formal sector. Coverage is thin partly
because traditional...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 139582Date: July 22, 2019Author:
Guven,Melis U.
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