Essays on human capital formation in developing countries by Singh, A

Understanding child poverty in developing countries: measurement and analysis by Dercon, S

Essays on mobile money services, microenterprises and role models in developing countries by Riley, E

Review of: Pathways out of poverty: Private firms and economic mobility in developing countries. by Dercon, S

Poverty and the psychosocial competencies of children : evidence from the Young Lives sample in four developing countries by Dercon, S, Krishan, P

“…<p>Using unique data from four developing countries, this paper explores the relationship between material poverty and the psychosocial competencies of children. …”

Long-term implications of under-nutrition on psychosocial competencies: evidence from four developing countries by Dercon, S, Sanchez, A

“…Motivated by suggestions from the medical literature and by the skills formation model proposed by Cunha and Heckman (2007, 2008), in this paper we use longitudinal data from children growing up in developing country contexts to study the role of early nutritional history in shaping these skills. …”

Height in mid childhood and psychosocial competencies in late childhood : evidence from four developing countries by Dercon, S, Sanchez, A

“…<p>We use longitudinal data from children growing up in four developing countries (Peru, India, Vietnam, Ethiopia) to study the relationship between height at the age of 7 to 8 and a set of psychosocial competencies measured at the age of 11 to 12 that are known to be correlated with earnings during adulthood: self-efficacy, self-esteem and aspirations. …”

Insurance Against Poverty

“…Eighteen papers, one previously published, others presented at a UNU-WIDER conference in June 2001 in Helsinki, Finland, offer new economic research concerning the relationship between risk and poverty in developing countries and what policies would most effectively address the risk that contributes to poverty. …”

Child development in a changing world: risks and opportunities by Boyden, J, Dercon, S, Singh, A

“…The review goes on to explore the impact on children of dramatic socio-economic changes that have occurred in recent years with rapid growth across most developing countries. It highlights four key forces for change-fall in absolute poverty, increased access to services, changing household incentives for investing in children, and changing social and cultural values-and stresses the ambiguous effects on the welfare of children and their long-term prospects. …”

Income Risk, Coping Strategies, and Safety Nets by Dercon, S

“…Poor rural and urban households in developing countries face substantial risks, which they handle with risk-management and risk-coping strategies, including self-insurance through savings and informal insurance mechanisms. …”

Prices, Unit Values and Local Measurement Units in Rural Surveys: An Econometric Approach with an Application to Poverty Measurement in Ethiopia. by Capeau, B, Dercon, S

“…For many research problems in developing countries, some information on prices faced by households is required, for example if subsistence consumption is a substantial part of consumption. …”

Regulation, minimum wage and informality: Introduction to symposium by Basu, K, Dercon, S, Kanbur, R, Svejnar, J

“…A key aspect of labor regulation in developing countries, and one becoming more prominent in the era of rising inequality, is the minimum wage. …”

Political Connections and Social Networks in Targeted Transfer Programmes: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia. by Caeyers, B, Dercon, S

“…In many developing countries, the beneficiaries of transfer programmes are determined by community-based processes, based on some general targeting rules related to needs. …”

Fate and Fear: Risk and Its Consequences in Africa. by Dercon, S

“…Much of the empirical work on risk in developing countries has also focused largely on the short-run implications and has ignored the long run. …”

Essays on development economics by Molina Campodonico, O

“…<p>This thesis is a collection of essays on the relevance of property right reforms on the wellbeing of poor households in developing countries; specifically titling programmes in urban Peru. …”

Essays in development economics, human capital and external validity by Angrist, N

“…I focus on interventions that aim to improve human capital, specifically health and education, in developing countries. To address the topic of external validity, we need comparable interventions and outcomes as well as identification of causal mechanisms that drive intervention effectiveness across contexts. …”

Fate and Fear: Risk and its Consequences in Africa. by Dercon, S

“…Much of the empirical work on risk in developing countries has also focused largely on the short-run implications, and has ignored the long-run. …”

Essays in development economics by Kirchberger, M

“…<p>The third chapter examines the cost of transport infrastructure in developing countries. To our knowledge, this is the first study that analyzes drivers of unit costs of construction of transport infrastructure using a large data set of 3,322 unit costs of road work activities in low and middle income countries. …”

Essays on the allocation of labour and capital in Indonesia by Sharma, A

“…<p>This dissertation comprises three essays on the allocation of labour and capital in a large developing country, Indonesia.</p> <p>In the first essay, I examine the impact of the 1998 East Asian recession on child schooling outcomes in Indonesia. …”

Essays on the political-economy of large-scale land deals by Harris, A

“…<p>The thesis consists of a short introduction and three self-contained analytical chapters on land policy in developing countries.</p> <p>Chapter 1 examines the agricultural investment choices of small-scale farmers in Ethiopia whose land will be expropriated to provide space for a large factory. …”