The Economic Lives of the Poor.

By Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007

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Positional spending and status seeking in rural China (2011, background): “Similarly, Banerjee and Duflo (2007) find that the median household in Udaipur, India – where 86% of the population lives below the $2 per day poverty line – spends 10% of its annual budget on festivals and 5% on tobacco and alcoho , which are typically consumed in social settings.”
Climate Change Impacts on Rural Poverty in Low-Elevation Coastal Zones (2015, background): “Permanent migration over long distances for work is rare for most poor rural households (Banerjee and Duflo 2007).”
Measuring Fuel Poverty: General Considerations and Application to German Household Data (2013, neutral): “Although the 1.25 Dollar poverty line is an absolute one, it can be drawn 7 For a discussion on the applicability and adequacy of a unique global poverty line such as the Dollar-per-day line see for example Banerjee and Duflo (2007).”
Integrated approach to understanding consumer behavior at bottom of pyramid (2008, background): “The unorganized and uncertain market for labor and services also makes it difficult to earn fair incomes and reduces incentives to specialize (Banerjee and Duflo, 2007).”
Entrepreneurship Education in a Poverty Context: An Empowerment Perspective (2019, background): “Despite the constraints of the poverty context, impoverished individuals identify entrepreneurial opportunities, gather scarce resources, and create new businesses (Banerjee and Duflo 2007; Si et al. 2015).”
A New Profile of the Global Poor (2018, background): “Banerjee and Duflo (2007), for example, provide an extensive analysis of the poor’s economic behavior, including levels of saving, and investment in education and health, based on data for 13 low- and middle-income countries.”
Poverty, depression, and anxiety: Causal evidence and mechanisms (2020, background): “In developing countries, people living in poverty usually pay most of their health costs out of pocket (92).”
Microfinance and the business of poverty reduction: Critical perspectives from rural Bangladesh (2017, methodology): “Drawing from the extant literature, we define poverty as a process whereby people are subject to sustained physical, social, economic, political, psychological and/or spiritual deprivation that gives rise to any combination of physical weakness, perceived isolation, and feelings of ill-being, vulner”
Limited insurance within the household: evidence from a field experiment in Kenya (2008, background): “What is important for my analysis is simply that, if the limited commitment constraint (4) does not bind, then optimality implies the well-known condition that the ratio of marginal utilities will be set equal to the Pareto weight , as in Equation (3).”
Underinvestment in a Profitable Technology: The Case of Seasonal Migration in Bangladesh (2014, background): “Estimating the returns to migration is the subject of a very large literature, but one that has been hampered by difficult selection issues (Akee 2010; Grogger and Hanson 2011).2 Most closely related to our work are a small number of experimental and quasiexperimental studies of the effects of migra”