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David E. Sahn
Researcher at Cornell University
Publications - 204
Citations - 7769
David E. Sahn is an academic researcher from Cornell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Standard of living. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 202 publications receiving 7453 citations. Previous affiliations of David E. Sahn include Paris School of Economics & International Food Policy Research Institute.
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Robust Comparisons of Malnutrition in Developing Countries
David E. Sahn,David Stifel +1 more
TL;DR: This paper used Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) to make international and inter-temporal welfare comparisons and found that applying higher order Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures adds little information; although stochastic dominance testing of nutrition distributions reveals that changes in malnutrition are sensitive to the choice of the “nutrition poverty line”.
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Early Academic Performance, Grade Repetition, and School Attainment in Senegal
Peter Glick,David E. Sahn +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take advantage of a unique data set from Senegal that combines test score data for children from the second grade with information on their subsequent school progression from a follow-up survey conducted seven years later, finding that skills from early primary school, corrected for measurement error using multiple test observations per child, are strongly positively associated with later school progression.
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Qualitative and quantitative poverty appraisal: complementarities, tensions and the way forward
Robert Chambers,Patti Petesch,Norman Uphoff,Martin Ravallion,François Bourguignon,David E. Sahn,Caroline Moser,Christopher B. Barrett,David Booth,Vijayendra Rao,Luc Christiaensen,Jesko Hentschel,Paul Shaffer,Rosemary McGee,Ronald J. Herring,Gary S. Fields,Alex Wilks,Erik Thorbecke +17 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a session on qualitative approaches: self-criticism and what can be gained from quantitative approaches was held, with the focus on selfcriticism in the context of self-defense.
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Urban-Rural Inequality in Living Standards in Africa
David E. Sahn,David Stifel +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the relative importance of rural versus urban areas in terms of monetary poverty and seven other related living standards indicators was examined and the relative and absolute rates of change for urban and rural areas were examined.