Potential poverty traps among the rural poor suggest a need to reduce poor farmers' vulnerability by stabilizing crop … than ever before with crops that reduce production risk by tolerating climate fluctuation or resisting biotic stresses …. Will poor farmers who could benefit most from less vulnerability choose to purchase such risk-reducing seeds? I use data …

, consequently, how this uncertainty influences caloric intake through changes in farm income. Using a rural household data set …

’s Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. In this paper, we look at the impact of own household health expenses on malaria …, therefore avoiding the issue of identification of the proper household agricultural production function. In addition the simar … 2006 National Ugandan Household Survey. Estimation results suggest that marginal increase in the index of malaria incidence …

We test the hypotheses that subsidies on hybrid seed change maize production, total household income, the severity of … poverty, and relative deprivation among smallholder maize growers in Zambia. The analysis contributes to the literature by … measuring the quantitative effects of seed (as compared to fertilizer) subsidies on indicators of household well-being rather …

large price shocks with respect to poverty analysis. Using a Ugandan household survey data set and an estimated flexible … similar consumption side poverty impact analyses. Second, to provide a sense of the magnitude in the loss of fidelity from … using a less flexible instead of a more flexible demand system within computable general equilibrium analyses of poverty …

This study tests the null hypothesis that it is sufficient to interview only the household head to obtain accurate … information on household income. Results show that using a husband’s estimate of his wife’s income does not produce statistically … reliable results for poverty analysis. Estimates of the wife’s income provided by the husband and wife are in agreement in only …

A procedure is developed to examine the ex-post impacts of improved maize varieties on poverty in rural Ethiopia. Yield … effects to identify the counterfactual income distribution without improved maize arieties. Poverty impacts are estimated as … the differences in poverty indices computed using observed and counterfactual income distributions. Improved maize …