Impact Initiative - Health: Recent submissions
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Armed conflict characteristics and its effects on firm exit
(2012)This paper uses two unique panel data sets to study the causal effect that different characteristics of the armed conflict have over firm exit in Colombia. Using a fixed effects estimation methodology at the plant level ... -
Behavior at the Local Level
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Agricultural production amidst conflict : the effects of shocks, uncertainty and governance of non-state armed actors
(2012)This paper examines the effect of conflict on agricultural production of small-farmers. We use a unique household survey applied to 4.800 households in four micro-regions of Colombia. The survey collects detailed ... -
Information Asymmetry, Group Structure And Repayment: a Study from BRAC Sierra Leone
(2014)By pulling together survey and experimental data, this research provides new empirical insight into the role of information asymmetry in the process of group structure, the role of risk homogeneity under group lending and ... -
Measuring Discrimination at the Local Level
(2014)A robust literature in the social sciences uses experimental games to study discrimination. Often, these games are played between strangers, and players are given little information about the population from which the ... -
Bridging the gender divide : an experimental analysis of group formation in African villages
(2010)Assortative matching occurs in many social contexts. We experimentally investigate gender assorting in sub-Saharan villages. In the experiment, co-villagers could form groups to share winnings in a gamble choice game. The ... -
Who shares risk with whom under different enforcement mechanisms?
(2010)We investigate whether available enforcement mechanisms affects who shares risk with whom in sub-Saharan Africa by applying dyadic regression analysis to data from a lab-type experiment, surveys and a genealogical mapping ... -
Measuring Multidimensional Poverty in Latin America: Previous Experience and the Way Forward
(2014)This paper states the need to design a multidimensional poverty index for the Latin America region (LA-MPI) that can monitor poverty trends in a cross-country comparable way, yet is also relevant to the particular regional ... -
Mobilising the Household Data Required to Progress toward the SDGs
(2014)Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be reported annually, but at present data on poverty-related SDGs are not updated frequently, nor are the data always available promptly. This paper reviews the key ... -
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2014
(2014)The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is an index of acute multidimensional poverty that covers over 100 developing countries. It assesses the nature and intensity of poverty at the individual level, by directly ... -
An Extensive Analysis of GNH Index
(2012)The Gross National Happiness Index is a single number index developed from 33 indicators categorized under nine domains. The GNH Index is constructed based upon a robust multidimensional methodology known as the Alkire-Foster ... -
Shame, Humiliation and Social Isolation: Missing Dimensions of Poverty and Suffering Analysis
(2014)While people living in poverty talk about isolation, shame, and humiliation as being key aspects of their lived experiences of suffering, until recently, there has been no international data on these aspects – making them ... -
Conditions for the most robust multidimensional poverty comparisons using counting measures and ordinal variables
(2012)A natural concern with multivariate poverty measures, as well as with other composite indices, is the robustness of their ordinal comparisons to changes in the indices’ parameter values. Applying multivariate stochastic ... -
Measuring Chronic Multidimensional Poverty: A Counting Approach
(2014)How can indices of multidimensional poverty be adapted to produce measures that quantify both the joint incidence of multiple deprivations and their chronicity? This paper adopts a new approach to the measurement of ...