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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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Exploring Alternative Measures of Welfare in the Absence of Expenditure Data
David E. Sahn,David Stifel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an asset-based alternative to the standard use of expenditures in defining well-being and poverty is considered, and the authors find that the asset index is a valid predictor of a crucial manifestation of poverty.
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Poverty Comparisons Over Time and Across Countries in Africa
David E. Sahn,David Stifel +1 more
TL;DR: This article used Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) to compare "poverty" at two or more points in time within and between African countries, and found that the majority of the improvements were due to improvements in rural areas.
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Schooling of girls and boys in a West African country: the effects of parental education, income, and household structure.
Peter Glick,David E. Sahn +1 more
TL;DR: Findings show that education for girls is unnecessary since they only need to work at home and policies that raise household incomes will increase gender equity in schooling, which will also depend on whether and how these policies change the opportunity costs of girls and boys and the labor market returns to female and male schooling.
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Robust multidimensional poverty comparisons
TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate how to make poverty comparisons using multidimensional indicators of well-being, showing in particular how to check whether the comparisons are robust to aggregation procedures and to the choice of multi-dimensional poverty lines.
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Urban–Rural Inequality in Living Standards in Africa
David E. Sahn,David Stifel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the relative importance of rural versus urban areas in terms of monetary poverty and seven other related living standards indicators is examined, and the relative and absolute rates of change for urban and rural areas are examined.