Author: Anita Alves Pena

Redi Reports

Exploring Economic Empowerment and Marginalization using Data from Developing Countries

  • October 2021
• The Poverty Action Center (PAC@REDI) is engaged in several ongoing data analyses to answer questions at the forefront of applied economics globally. • Our Nepal team is examining links between migration and social mobility through the lens of caste/ethnicity and wealth accumulation using micro-data from the World Bank.…
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Regional Field Sanitation Risk in the U.S. Agricultural Sector

  • December 2017
Representative data suggests that risk associated with lack of field sanitation is relatively low on U.S. farms Data for the agricultural region that includes Colorado suggests that this region was a first mover in terms of the availability of toilets for farmworkers, but more closely followed national trends of increased access to hand wash and drinking water over time Basic field sanitation definitions in available data are limited, however, and may not reflect the true extent of risk Unideal sanitation access may represent a health risk exposure category of interest on the farm.…
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Gender, Health, and Urban-Rural Influences on School Attendance in Nepal

  • April 2018
The Poverty Action Center (PAC@REDI) aims to utilize interdisciplinary academic tools and mixed-methods research approaches to help guide poverty action locally and globally. We are using original survey design and econometric data analysis to answer questions at the intersection of poverty, access to education, and student achievement.…
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Relationships between Gender, School Attendance and Student Achievement in Nepal

  • June 2019
We examine positive links between school attendance and student achievement in the context of secondary schools in Nepal via original data collection matched to administrative records. We pay attention to gender since previous work is suggestive of menstruation affecting school attendance in this context. We also examine other non- attendance determinants of achievement, including individual and family- related characteristics, for comparison.…
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Local Labor Market Inequality and Mass Incarceration

  • October 2019
Using local-level data on incarceration rates by race, we explore the relationship between income inequality, poverty, and incarceration at the commuting zone level from 1950 to the present. We find that labor markets with higher levels of inequality experienced larger increases in overall incarceration, and that relative rates of poverty play a key role in explaining the differential effects of mass incarceration across race.…
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