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Gender Labor Income Shares and Human Capital Investment in the Republic of Congo

Backiny-Yetna, Prospere; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

(as proxied through spending for food, education, health, and children’s clothing). The impact is not negligible and it is … statistically significant, suggesting long-term benefits through children from efforts to increase female labor income. …

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Measuring Time Poverty and Analyzing Its Determinants: Concepts and Application to Guinea

Bardasi, Elena; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The availability of better data on time use in developing countries makes it important to provide tools for analyzing such data. While the idea of “time poverty” is not new, and while many papers have provided measures of time use and hinted at the concept of time poverty, we have not seen...

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Poverty Reduction from Full Employment: A Time Use Approach

Bardasi, Elena; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Despite long working hours, for many household members, and especially women, underemployment is nevertheless affecting a large share of the population in many developing countries. Using data on time use, wages, and consumption levels from a recent household survey for Guinea, this paper...

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Labor Shortages Despite Underemployment? Seasonality in Time Use in Malawi

Wodon, Quentin; Beegle, Kathleen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Evidence for Malawi and other developing countries suggests the existence of labor shortages at the peak of the cropping season, with negative impacts on the ability of households to make the most of their endowments such as land. At the same time, for most of the year, there is substantial...

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Assessing the Welfare of Orphans in Rwanda: Poverty, Work, Schooling, and Health

Siaens, Corinne; Subbarao, K.; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

development as other children. The objective of this paper is to conduct preliminary work to test this assumption using recent …, child labor and time use, but also with an eye to assessing other dimensions of the children’s welfare. …

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Gender, Time Use, and Poverty: Introduction

Blackden, Mark; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper serves as an introduction and overview for a volume that aims to shed light on the question of “time poverty” in Sub-Saharan Africa and its relationship with consumption-based measures of poverty, as well as other development outcomes. Time poverty, especially as seen in the...

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Income Generation and Intra-Household Decision Making: A Gender Analysis for Nigeria

Angel-Urdinola, Diego; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Even without a comprehensive household survey with detailed consumption and income data, it is still often feasible to conduct useful empirical work on gender and intra-household allocations. This paper documents the extent to which income generation affects decision making within households in...

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Domestic Work Time in Sierra Leone

Wodon, Quentin; Ying, Yvonne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The objective of this paper is to provide a descriptive analysis of domestic work time in Sierra Leone using a 2003-2004 household survey that for the first time provides information on time use. Basic statistics on the time allocated to domestic work according to gender, age, urban/rural...

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Differences in the private cost of health care between providers and satisfaction with services: results for sub-Saharan African countries

Tsimpo, Clarence; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The issue of whether faith-inspired providers are able to reach the poor depends in part on the cost of the health services provided. This paper relies on recent nationally representative household surveys for sub-Saharan African countries to assess to what extent the cost of healthcare is a...

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Satisfaction with faith-inspired health care services in Africa: review and evidence from household surveys

Olivier, Jill; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Patient service satisfaction has become a critical concept, utilized both in the assessment of quality of care and to … predict a range of health-related behaviors and outcomes. What can be said about patient satisfaction with faith … satisfaction of patients with FII-health services in Africa today. Second, we present new evidence from household surveys in six …

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