Documents et rapports
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The measurement of educational inequality : achievement and opportunity (anglais)
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5873 Date du document: 1 novembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferreira, Francisco H. G.,Gignoux, Jeremie D.
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Small area estimation-based prediction methods to track poverty : validation and applications (anglais)
Tracking poverty is predicated on the availability of comparable consumption data and reliable price deflators. However, regular series of strictly comparable data are only rarely available. Price deflators...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5683 Date du document: 1 juin 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Christiaensen, Luc,Lanjouw, Peter F.,Luoto, Jill Emily,Stifel, David C.
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Using repeated cross-sections to explore movements in and out of poverty (anglais)
Movements in and out of poverty are of core interest to both policymakers and economists. Yet the panel data needed to analyze such movements are rare. In this paper, the authors build on the methodology...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5550 Date du document: 1 janvier 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dang, Hai-Anh H.,Lanjouw, Peter F.,Luoto, Jill Emily,McKenzie, David J.
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Is there a metropolitan bias ? the inverse relationship between poverty and city size in selected developing countries (anglais)
This paper provides evidence from eight developing countries of an inverse relationship between poverty and city size. Poverty is both more widespread and deeper in very small and small towns than in large...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5508 Date du document: 1 décembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferre, Celine,Ferreira, Francisco H. G.,Lanjouw, Peter F.
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How and why does history matter for development policy ? (anglais)
The consensus among scholars and policymakers that "institutions matter" for development has led inexorably to a conclusion that "history matters," since institutions clearly form and evolve over time...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5425 Date du document: 1 septembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rao, Vijayendra,Szreter, Simon Richard Stanislaw,Woolcock, Michael
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Revisiting between-group inequality measurement : an application to the dynamics of caste inequality in two Indian villages (anglais)
Standard approaches to decomposing how much group differences contribute to inequality rarely show significant between-group inequality, and are of limited use in comparing populations with different numbers...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5337 Date du document: 1 juin 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lanjouw, Peter F.,Rao, Vijayendra
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Mental health in the aftermath of conflict (anglais)
The authors survey the recent literature on the mental health effects of conflict. They highlight the methodological challenges faced in this literature, which include the lack of validated mental health...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5132 Date du document: 1 novembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Do, Quy-Toan,Iyer, Lakshmi
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Missing women and India's religious demography (anglais)
The authors use recent data from the 2006 National Family Health Survey of India to explore the relationship between religion and demographic behavior. They find that fertility and mortality vary not only...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5096 Date du document: 1 octobre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Borooah, Vani,Do, Quy-Toan,Iyer, Sriya,Joshi, Shareen
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Agent orange and the prevalence of cancer among the Vietnamese population 30 years after the end of the Vietnam war (anglais)
During the Vietnam War, more than 70 million liters of military herbicide were sprayed over the combat zone. This study uses self and proxy-reported data on cancer status obtained from a nationally representative...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5041 Date du document: 1 septembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Do, Quy-Toan
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Orphanhood and the living arrangements of children in sub-saharan Africa (anglais)
Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4889 Date du document: 1 mars 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beegle, Kathleen G.,Filmer, Deon P.,Stokes, Andrew,Tiererova, Lucia
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Development, modernization, and son preference in fertility decisions (anglais)
A family preference for sons over daughters may manifest itself in different ways, including higher mortality, worse health status, or lower educational attainment among girls. This study focuses on one...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4716 Date du document: 1 septembre 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Filmer, Deon P.,Friedman, Jed,Schady, Norbert Rudiger
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The measurement of inequality of opportunity : theory and an application to Latin America (anglais)
What part of the inequality observed in a particular country is due to unequal opportunities, rather than to differences in individual efforts or luck? This paper estimates a lower bound for the opportunity...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4659 Date du document: 1 juillet 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferreira, Francisco H. G.,Gignoux, Jeremie D.