potential future hold-up, we hypothesize that long-term contracts represent the final stage in the farmers' "careers" after a …

dietary preferences, the retail demand for beef in the United States and to establish if media coverage of popular diets … (media frenzy) causes the change in retail demand for beef, or if it simply reports the facts about the changes in consumer … shifter for beef in the long run. In the short run, media serves as a trigger that will swing people to become followers of a …

women still remain present. This study provides new empirical evidence on the gender wage gap in the labor market for the … characteristics, we examine gender differences in the wages of the graduates of the agribusiness department. The regression analysis …

Women's agricultural production is modeled as a sequential switching regression process determined by men's clearing … labor capacity and women's harvest labor capacity. Results show that output was more often constrained by husband's clearing … labor. However, men's economic contribution to household consumption is inversely related to women's agricultural output. …

This paper examines the relationship between gender inequality and nutrition using direct indicators of empowerment … of the household as a utility maximizing unit that uses women’s status and characteristics as inputs to produce a final … good, child health. Indices that capture distinct dimensions of women’s empowerment are used as explanatory variables along …

This study conducts a gender analysis of homeownership in Ecuador, drawing upon data collected through the nationally … household and individual levels. This allows us to overcome a typical problem faced by gender analyses, that of only having the … sex of the household head and not the sex of the owner(s). The study explores gender differences in homeownership and …