Leonardo Lucchetti

TL;DR: Household survey data from Eritrea is used to estimate the effect of exposure to the 1998-2000 Eritrea-Ethiopia war on children's health, with effects robust to including region-specific time trends, alternative conflict exposure measures, and mother fixed effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the coverage dimension, looking at empirical data in Latin America Coverage of pension systems has slowly become a central issue in the policy debate in the region After more than a decade of reforms and debates, the central problem of protecting most workers and their families from the economic risks caused by aging and retirement from the labor force remains unsolved in countries were structural reforms were implemented, as well as in countries where reforms were limited to parametric adjustments and countries where no significant reforms were adopted

TL;DR: The authors used spatially disaggregated monthly data on consumer prices and two different household surveys to estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households, showing that the overall impact of higher food prices in Brazil was U-shaped, with middle-income groups suffering larger proportional losses than the very poor.

TL;DR: The authors of as mentioned in this paper have made a critical analysis of the many inconsistencies present in much of the data, which in many cases are intrinsic to the difficulties of approaching indigenous issues with tools and data sets not originally intended to account for or include indigenous peoples' voices and special needs.

TL;DR: The authors in this article showed that the region's gross domestic product per capita grew at an average rate of 2.5 percent between 2000 and 2012, and despite being one of the most unequal regions in the world, inequalities reduced substantially.