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The poverty rate and income transfer are clearly correlated. However, not much research has attempted to determine the causal linkage between the two. Previous research has primarily focused on the poverty-reducing impact of income transfer. In this paper, we apply a simultaneous equation system...
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endogeneity of inputs. Model results suggest that although climate change can potentially reduce rice production, farmers will …
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women in Malawi. A rise in prime-age adult mortality increases risks associated with the search for a marriage partner in … mortality is for marriage to occur earlier to avoid women's exposure to HIV/AIDS risks under the condition that the risks are … period during their marriage, which may lead to a higher fertility rate. However, the second implication should be discounted …
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sum, schooling increases the opportunity cost of marriage for women, which delays marriage and increases their mortality …"The institution of marriage plays some role in determining one's risk of exposure to HIV. Since the transmission of … women. Therefore, the choice of when and who to marry appears to be related to risk of exposure. The objective of this paper …
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Philippine Labor Force Survey support that family arrangement to tighten commitment between daughters and parents keeps a high …
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Human fertility is likely to affect agricultural production through its effect on the supply of agricultural labor … Uganda—a country that combines a dominant agricultural sector with one of the highest fertility rates in the world. We found … that fertility has a sizable negative effect on household labor allocation to subsistence agriculture. Households with …
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human fertility. Little comprehensive research, however, has been done on the effects of those technologies themselves on … human fertility leaving unanswered the question of whether particular types of agricultural technologies were actually … agricultural change (from 1961 to 1981) and changes in human fertility (from 1971 to 1981) to assess the impact of the former on …
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discrimination against women and improve the lives of children, as well as those seeking to reduce fertility and population growth … place despite declining fertility rates and identify a number of factors. Well-designed population policies are broad in …. Mutually reinforcing investments in family planning, reproductive health, and a range of socioeconomic measures operate …
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examine here whether the policy achieves its aim, and how the policy affects reproductive outcomes for women in Ghana … reduces the use of abortion as a result of the policy. On the contrary, rural women significantly increase abortions. This …
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