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Rural shadow wages and youth agricultural labor supply in Ethiopia : Evidence from Farm Panel Data
Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu; Gerber, Nicolas - In: Change at home, in the labor market, and on the job, (pp. 61-106). 2021
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The determinants of housework time : boosting the efficiency of household production could have large economic effects
Stratton, Leslie S. - 2015
driven in part by the gender differential in wages. Efforts to reduce the gender wage gap and alter gendered norms of … behavior should reduce the gender bias in household production time and reduce inefficiency in home production. Policymakers …
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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Doing it all: Women’s employment and reproductive work in Tajikistan
Meurs, Mieke; Slavchevska, Vanya - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 786-803
Central Asia has low labor force participation rates for women, despite high levels of poverty in the non-oil producing countries. Female labor force participation is related to competing uses for women’s time, especially in a context of poor infrastructure and limited availability of...
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The welfare gain from eliminating coffee price volatility: the case of indian coffee producers
Mohan, Sushil; Gemech, Firdu; Reeves, Alan; Struthers, John - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 4, pp. 57-72
It is commonly felt that the liberalisation of commodity markets has increased the exposure of commodity producers to price volatility. Using a generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity framework, we make a distinction between the predictable and unpredictable components of...
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Efficiency of food production under old and new technology: the case of farmers within and outside the extension package program in Ethiopia
Alene, Arega D.; Hassan, Rashid M. - In: Journal of Developing Areas 41 (2008) 2, pp. 233-249
This paper measures the technical, allocative, and economic efficiencies of farmers within and outside the Extension Package Program (EPP) in high and low potential agro-ecological zones in eastern Ethiopia. Within-group farmer efficiencies are analyzed relative to respective technologies to...
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Pesticide use and farmers' health in China's rice production
Qiao, Fangbin; Huang, Jikun; Zhang, Linxiu; Rozelle, Scott - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 4, pp. 468-484
Purpose – The purpose of this study is trying to document and examine the impacts of pesticide use on farmers' health. Different from previous studies, the paper is not only going to focus on the visible effect, but also the invisible effect. At the same time, the paper is going to divided the...
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Production Choices of Farm Households: Institutional and Behaviourial Aspects in Economic Theory
Mendola, Mariapia - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2006) 2
This paper reviews the main theoretical and empirical contributions analysing production choices of farm households in the developing countries, where the markets are imperfect and incomplete. Recent developments in the micro-economic literature have highlighted the existence of a trade-off...
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Modelling Agricultural Trade and Policy Impacts in Less Developed Countries
Brooks, Jonathan; Dyer, George; Taylor, Ed - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2008
This paper proposes a methodological framework for examining the distributional effects of alternative agricultural policies in less developed economies. The framework combines disaggregated household models with an explicit modelling of the linkages between product and factor markets.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049229
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Climate variability and child height in rural Mexico
Skoufias, Emmanuel; Vinha, Katja - In: Economics & Human Biology 10 (2012) 1, pp. 54-73
We examine the impacts of weather shocks, defined as rainfall or growing degree days, a cumulative measure of temperature, more than a standard deviation from their respective long run mean, on the stature of children between 12 and 47 months of age in Mexico. We find that after a positive...
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