We investigate determinants of household firewood collection in rural Nepal, using 1995-96 and 2002-3 World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) data. We incorporate village fixed effects, endogenous censoring, measurement error in living standards and heterogeneous effects of different household assets. We find no evidence in favor of the poverty-environment hypothesis. The evidence...

This paper presents findings of an investigation into the effects of living-standards and relative poverty on children’s schooling in urban and rural areas of Senegal. To measure living standards, we apply a multiple-indicator, multiple-cause (MIMIC) factor-analytic model to a set of proxy variables collected in the 2000 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey and extract an estimate of the relative ...

This study is conducted to investigate the impact of migration on living standards households with migrants in context Vietnam. Data were collected from results Vietnam Household Living Standards time series. Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition was employed decompose source differences income between and without migrants. The show that multiyear dataset had a higher than nonmigrant households, differe...