Household Survey Data for Research on Well-Being and Behavior in Central Asia

Abstract

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Post‐socialist transition and intergenerational educational mobility in Kyrgyzstan

“…We examine 7,213 parent–child pair observations. The third data source is the second wave of the panel household survey ‘Life in Kyrgyzstan’, collected in 2011 (Brück et al ., ). This is a nationally representative survey with data collected from 2,860 households and 8,151 individual respondents (see http://www.lifeinkyrgyzstan.org for further information).…”

“…We pose three questions in the paper: (1) what is the magnitude of educational intergenerational mobility in Kyrgyzstan; (2) how has the transition affected educational mobility; and (3) is there a gender gap in educational mobility? Given the absence of long‐term longitudinal studies in Central Asia (Brück et al ., ), we use three cross‐sectional household surveys, collected in Kyrgyzstan in 1993, 1998 and 2011, to approximate for early, mid, and late transition periods, respectively. Using the years of schooling of respondents (aged 20–69) and of their parents, we calculate regression and correlation coefficients to infer the dynamics of educational mobility.…”

Conflict and development: recent research advances and future agendas

“…Panel data on conflict and development has been successfully gathered in a variety of locations. Brück et al (2014) completed the Life in Kyrgyzstan Survey, gathering responses between 2010 and 2012 from 3,000 households, which included modules on conflict and allowed researchers to better understand development outcomes at the household level. 2 The Maharashtra Household Longitudinal Surveys, run in 2010 and 2012, helped researchers see for the first time how community-level violence impacted economic development at the household level for families in India (Gupte et al 2014).…”

Migrant Remittances as a Source of Financing for Entrepreneurship

“…Finally, the article contextualizes for the first time the inquiry into the link between remittances and entrepreneurship in the Central Asian and Uzbekistan setting. The region (and the country) is understudied, despite its unique transition experience, mainly because of the lack of data (Brück et al., ). Prevalence of South‐South temporary migration is the main feature of the migration processes in Uzbekistan and the region, and since many Central Asian countries share the same cultural, religious, and economic characteristics, the paper's findings are likely to be valid at the regional level.…”