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Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda:

Van Campenhout, Bjorn - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

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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Gender, labor, and prime-age adult mortality: evidence from South Africa

Yamauchi, Futoshi; Buthelezi, Thabani; Velia, Myriam - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"This paper assesses the impact of prime-age mortality on human capital formation and labor markets by examining, first, the impact on adolescents, who may leave school in order to enter the labor market, and second, the impact on adult females who, upon the loss of a breadwinner, may decide to...

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Gender, labor, and prime-age adult mortality: evidence from South Africa

Yamauchi, Futoshi; Buthelezi, Thabani; Velia, Myriam - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"This paper examines the impact of prime-age adult mortality on the transition from school to the labor market of adolescents and on decisions by female adults to participate in the labor force in South Africa. The analysis focuses on that period—1998–2004—when South Africa experienced...

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The Feminization of Agriculture with Chinese Characteristics:

de Brauw, Alan; Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

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Preliminary evidence on internal migration, remittances, and teen schooling in India:

Mueller, Valerie; Shariff, Abusaleh - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

"Migration can serve as an outlet for employment, higher earnings, and reduced income risk for households in developing countries. We use the 2004–2005 Human Development Profile of India survey to examine correlations between the receipt of remittances from internal migrants and human capital...

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Sinopsis: Informe De La Nutricion Mundial 2014: Fortalecer la accion y la responsabilidad para acelerar los progresos en nutricion en el mundo

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); … - 2014

Una buena nutrición es fundamental para promover vidas saludables, medios de subsistencia sólidos y resistentes, y economías prósperas. Sin ella, estos empeños se asientan sobre terreno inestable. Los niños con retraso de crecimiento no pueden crecer ni desarrollarse adecuadamente, y...

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Policy reform toward gender equality in Ethiopia: Little by little the egg begins to walk

Kumar, Neha; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

There is growing interest in the role of policy reforms to promote gender equality and empower women, two key … to be consistent, so that they reinforce each other in improving gender equity. We use data from the Ethiopian Rural …, and changes in the Family Code implemented in 2000â€”may have created conditions for mutually reinforcing gender …

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The governance of service delivery for the poor and women: A study of rural water supply in Ethiopia

Mogues, Tewodaj; Cohen, Marc J.; Birner, Regina; Lemma, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

This study presents empirical findings on drinking water supply in Ethiopia from a set of qualitative and quantitive surveys on rural public services. Access to safe drinking water is very low: 32% of the surveyed households use safe drinking water sources, and the average time to get to safe...

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Womenâ€™s participation in agricultural cooperatives in Ethiopia:

Woldu, Thomas; Tadesse, Fanaye; Waller, Marie-Katherine - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

,117 households and 73 agricultural cooperatives. Using descriptive statistics and econometric analysis under a critical gender lens … in agricultural cooperatives. The findings suggest that a major barrier to womenâ€™s access are gender biases within …

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Links between tenure security and food security: Evidence from Ethiopia:

Hagos, Hosaena Ghebru; Holden, Stein - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

This study uses five rounds of household panel data from Tigray, Ethiopia, collected in the period 1998â€“2010 to assess the impacts of a land registration and certification program that aimed to strengthen tenure security and how it has contributed to increased food availability and, thus,...

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