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...
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Does piped water reduce diarrhea for children in rural India?, conducted between 1993 and 1994 in India. The study observed...
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...
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Improving primary school education in India : an impact assessment of District Primary Education Program (DPEP) - phase one...
Theoretical work has shown that nonlinear dynamics in household incomes can yield poverty traps and distribution-dependent growth. If this is true, the potential implications for policy are dramatic: effective...
The effects of public investments aimed at directly improving children's health are theoretically ambiguous, since the outcomes also depend on indirect effects through parental inputs. The authors investigate...
Does risk perpetuate poverty in a credit-constrained economy? Jalan and Ravallion study portfolio and other behavioral responses to measured risk using household panel data for rural China. One-quarter...
Are the determinants of chronic and transient poverty different? Do policies that reduce transient poverty also reduce chronic poverty? The authors decompose measures of household poverty into chronic...
Can place of residence make the difference between growth and contraction in living standards for otherwise identical households? The authors test for the existence of spatial poverty traps, using a micro...
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...
Poor-area development programs- in which the government transfers extra resources to unusually poor areas -have been widely used to fight poverty. There has been some research on such programs, but little...
The authors study transient poverty in a six-year panel dataset for a sample of 5,000 households in post-reform rural China. Half of the mean squared poverty gap is transient, in that it is directly attributable...
This report reviews the programs implemented in selected countries to protect the poor during normal times and during transition or adjustment. In particular, two questions are addressed: how have countries...