Martin Ravallion, Quentin Wodon
It is often argued that child labour comes at the expense of schooling and so perpetuates poverty for children from poor families. To test this claim we study the effects on children's labour force participation and school enrollments of the pure school-price change induced by a targeted enrollment ...
Martin Ravallion
Abstract A model of spatial price differentials for a tradable good is proposed which avoids the inferential dangers of received methods using static price correlations. The proposed method also extracts more information on the causes of price differentials from the same data. The method is illustra...
Martin Ravallion, Quentin Wodon
RavalCion and Wodon try to determine whether children reduction in the incidence of child labor among boys seln to work in rural Bangladesh are caught in a poverty (girls) represents about one-quarter (one-eighth) of the trap, with the extra incorne to poor families from child increase in their scho...
Martin Ravallion
Welfare distributional effects in a food producing economy of changes in the relative price of food are analyzed, allowing for labor market responses. Conditions for signing the welfare effects are derived for a stylized agricultural household and are tested for Bangladesh. Point estimates suggest t...
Martin Ravallion
This is a study in the economics of famine. Famines have often presented a challenge to economic thought. Past debates have concerned the importance of aggregate food availability and the role of markets and governments in allocating limited food. This book applies some modern methods of economic in...
Martin Ravallion, Binayak Sen
Martin Ravallion, Quentin Wodon
Anti‐poverty programs often target poor areas even when there is seemingly free migration. Should such programs focus instead on households with personal attributes that foster poverty, no matter where they live? Possibly not; there may be “hidden” constraints on mobility, or location may reveal oth...
Kaushik Basu, Ambar Narayan, Martin Ravallion
A member of a collective-action households may or may not share the benefits of literacy with others in that household; the shared gains from doing so may well be offset by a shift in the balance of power within the family. Using household survey data for Bangladesh, we find strong external effects ...
Emanuela Galasso, Martin Ravallion
It is common for central governments, to \n delegate authority over the targeting of welfare programs to \n local community organizations - which may be better informed \n about who is poor, though possibly less accountable for \n getting the money to the local poor - while the cente...
James K. Boyce, Martin Ravallion
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Martin Ravallion, Binayak Sen
Martin Ravallion
Journal Article The Performance of Rice Markets in Bangladesh During the 1974 Famine Get access Martin Ravallion Martin Ravallion Queen Elizabeth House and Nuffield College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 95, Issue 377, 1 ...
Martin Ravallion, Quentin Wodon, World Bank
Instead of targeting poor areas, should poverty programs target households with personal attributes that foster poverty, no matter where they live? Possibly not. There may be hidden constraints on mobility, or location may reveal otherwise hidden householdattributes. Using survey data for Bangladesh...
Emanuela Galasso, Martin Ravallion
COmmUnity-level targeting of antipoverty programs is now of a Decentralized Welfare commcn. Do local community organizations target the poor
Martin Ravallion, Quentin Wodon
possible through a long term collaborative effort between the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit of the World Bank’s South Asia Region. The paper was prepared as an input to World Bank (1998). The support of the World Bank’s Research Committee (und...