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FBOs collected through surveys and games. We find that most Ghanaian FBOs are inactive, failing to mobilize their members …
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Human fertility is likely to affect agricultural production through its effect on the supply of agricultural labor. Using the fact that in traditional, patriarchal societies sons are often preferred to daughters, we isolated exogenous variation in the number of children born to a mother and...
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Talhelm et al. (2014) provided an original rice theory to explain large psychological differences across countries and even within countries and their impact on innovation. However, their findings are subject to the problems of sample bias, measurement error, and model misspecification. After...
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Knowledge of actual poverty prevalence is important for any society concerned with improving public welfare and reducing poverty. In this paper, we calculate and compare the poverty incidence rate in China using four nationally representative surveys: the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) of...
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educated, rich, and proactive individuals were more likely to purchase insurance. Risk aversion was associated with low … risk reduced demand for insurance, particularly when the price of the contract was high, and that provision of insurance …
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This food policy report reviews resilience processes, activities, and outcomes by examining a number of case studies of initiatives by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to enhance resilience capacity, and draws implications for policymakers and other stakeholders looking to strengthen resilience.
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While there is a fast-growing policy interest in offering financial products to help rural households manage risk, the … hypothesize that this difference results from the fact that although men and women are equally exposed to yield risk, women face … essence, the basis risk associated with agricultural insurance products is higher for women. Insurance was more effective than …
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manage drought risk: weather index insurance and a recently released drought-tolerant rice variety. We illustrate how these … tools can independently address drought risk and demonstrate the potential for these tools to be combined in a complementary … risk management product. Using a discrete choice experiment, we assess farmers’ preferences for these two tools …
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