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  • Nutrition, religion, and widowhood in Nigeria (anglais)

    It is known that Muslim women in Nigeria have significantly worse nutritional status than their Christian counterparts. The paper first shows that this difference is explained by covariates including geographic...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8549 Date du document: 13 août 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Milazzo,Annamaria,Van De Walle,Dominique

  • Marital shocks and women's welfare in Africa (anglais)

    Marital shocks are exceedingly common for women in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper investigates whether women who have suffered a marital rupture experience lower welfare levels relative to married women...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8306 Date du document: 17 janvier 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Van De Walle,Dominique,Djuikom,Marie Albertine

  • Marital trajectories and women's well-being in Senegal (anglais)

    Divorce and widowhood succeeded by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous marital trajectories affect women's well-being. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8230 Date du document: 30 octobre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lambert,Sylvie,Van De Walle,Dominique,Villar,Paola

  • Are poor individuals mainly found in poor households ? evidence using nutrition data for Africa (anglais)

    Antipoverty policies in developing countries often assume that targeting poor households will be reasonably effective in reaching poor individuals. This paper questions this assumption, using nutritional...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8001 Date du document: 9 mars 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brown,Caitlin Susan,Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique

  • The World Bank Economic Review 31 (2) (anglais)

    The World Bank Economic Review is a professional journal used for the dissemination of research in development economics broadly relevant to the development profession and to the World Bank in pursuing...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 140496 Date du document: 1 janvier 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aburto-Oropeza, Octavio,Leslie, Heather M.,Mack-Crane, Austen,Nagavarapu,Sriniketh Suryasesha,Reddy, Sheila M.W.,Sievanen. Leila,Calvo-Gonzalez,Oscar,Cunha,Barbara,Trezzi,Riccardo,Bas,Maria,Berthou, Antoine,Van De Walle,Dominique,Ravallion,Martin,Mendiratta,Vibhuti,Koolwal,Gayatri B.,Diao,Xinshen,Harttgen,Kenneth,Mcmillan,Margaret S.,Wydick,Bruce W.,Glewwe,Paul W.,Rutledge, Laine,Rijkers,Bob,Baghdadi Ep Montassar,Leila,Raballand,Gael J. R. F.,Mu,Ren,Du,Yang,Gibson,John,Le,Trinh,Kim, Bonggeun,Beasley,Elizabeth Ruth,Huillery,Elise,Bell,Clive L.G.,Mejia,Daniel,Restrepo,Pascual,Rozo Villarraga,Sandra Viviana

  • Long-term Gains from Electrification in Rural India (anglais)

    The authors know surprisingly little about the long-run impacts of household electrification. This paper studies the impacts on consumption in rural India over a seventeen-year period, allowing for both...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 140526 Date du document: 1 janvier 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Van De Walle,Dominique,Ravallion,Martin,Mendiratta,Vibhuti,Koolwal,Gayatri B.

  • A poor means test ? econometric targeting in Africa (anglais)

    Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version, a regression for log consumption calibrates a proxy-means test score based on chosen...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7915 Date du document: 13 décembre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brown,Caitlin Susan,Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique

  • Is workfare cost-effective against poverty in a poor labor-surplus economy (anglais)

    Workfare has often seemed an attractive option for making self-targeted transfers to poor people. But is this incentive argument strong enough in practice to prefer unproductive workfare to even untargeted...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 129197 Date du document: 5 août 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Murgai,Rinku,Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique

  • Women left behind ? poverty and headship in Africa (anglais)

    This paper is motivated by two stylized facts about poverty in Africa: female-headed households tend to be poorer, and poverty has been falling in the aggregate since the 1990s. These facts raise two questions:...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7331 Date du document: 23 juin 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Milazzo,Annamaria,Van De Walle,Dominique

  • Testing information constraints on India's largest antipoverty program (anglais)

    This brief summarizes the updates from the 2013 paper entitled, Testing information constraints on India's largest antipoverty program, conducted between between 2009 and 2010 in India. The study observed...

    Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 90356 Date du document: 2 septembre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique,Dutta,Puja Vasudeva, Margai, Rinku

  • Right to work? : assessing India's employment guarantee scheme in Bihar (anglais)

    In 2006, India embarked on an ambitious attempt to fight poverty by attempting to introduce a wage floor in a setting in which many unskilled workers earn less than the minimum wage. The 2005 national...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 85414 Date du document: 1 février 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dutta,Puja Vasudeva,Murgai,Rinku,Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique

  • Is workfare cost-effective against poverty in a poor labor-surplus economy? (anglais)

    Workfare schemes impose work requirements on beneficiaries. This has seemed an attractive idea for self-targeting transfers to poor people. This incentive argument does not imply, however, that workfare...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6673 Date du document: 1 octobre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Murgai,Rinku,Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique

  • Testing information constraints on India's largest antipoverty program (anglais)

    Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar, where participation is also unusually low. Is the solution simply to tell people their...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6598 Date du document: 1 septembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique,Dutta,Puja Vasudeva,Murgai,Rinku

  • Long-term impacts of household electrification in rural India (anglais)

    India's huge expansion in rural electrification in the 1980s and 1990s offers lessons for other countries today. The paper examines the long-term effects of household electrification on consumption, labor...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6527 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Van De Walle,Dominique,Ravallion,Martin,Mendiratta,Vibhuti,Koolwal,Gayatri B.

  • Does India's employment guarantee scheme guarantee employment ? (anglais)

    In 2005 India introduced an ambitious national anti-poverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The program offers up to 100 days of unskilled manual labor...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6003 Date du document: 1 mars 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dutta,Puja Vasudeva,Murgai,Rinku,Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique

  • Better access to water raises welfare, but not women's off-farm work (anglais)

    In the developing world, poor rural women and their children spend considerable time collecting water. Do women living in areas where more time is needed for water collection tend to participate less in...

    Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 64928 Date du document: 1 octobre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Koolwal,Gayatri B.,Van De Walle,Dominique

  • Lasting welfare effects of widowhood in a poor country (anglais)

    Little is known about the situation facing widows and their dependent children in West Africa especially after the widow remarries. Women in Malian society are vulnerable to the loss of husbands especially...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5734 Date du document: 1 juillet 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Van De Walle,Dominique

  • Catching up slowly : ethnic and gender inequalities in Lao PDR (anglais)

    In addition to the majority Lao-Tai (67 percent of the population), the 5 million residents of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) include three major non-Lao-Tai ethno-linguistic groups: the Mon-Khmer...

    Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 64762 Date du document: 1 novembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: King,Elizabeth M.,Van De Walle,Dominique