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Households' income-generating activities and marginal returns to labor in rural Tanzania

Nerman, Måns - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

This study uses detailed household-level data to investigate income and activity diversification among households in rural Tanzania. Unlike previous research on diversification, I explicitly evalutate marginal returns within different activities, aiming to assess whether households are able to...

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Equalization of paid working hours in the dual-earner household: Does it increase women’s double burden?

Ericson, Thomas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

By using a sample of Swedish dual-earner households, this paper investigates how a transfer of time spent on paid work from the man to the woman influences their allocation of unpaid household work. It is found that their total time engaged in household work decreases. This result suggests that...

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"Household specialisation and gender equality in transition. Paid and unpaid work of women and men in Soviet and post-Soviet Taganrog"

Katz, Katarina; Sand, Lena - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

Using unique survey data from the Russian industrial city Taganrog in 1989 and 1998, we analyse changes in the gender … indicate increased gender specialisation among the employed .Thus, the dual earner norm mainly remains but the pre …-existing gender difference within it has increased considerably, particularly among couples with pre-school children.<p> …

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The Wealth Paradox Revisited: Credit Market Imperfections and Child Labor

Congdon Fors, Heather - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

We revisit the model of child labor in a peasant household presented in Bhalotra and Heady (2003), and demonstrate that the e¤ect of credit market imperfections on child labor di¤ers between households that save and households that borrow. This in turn is important for the interpretation of...

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Child Labor: A Review of Recent Theory and Evidence with Policy Implications

Congdon Fors, Heather - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

In recent years, a growing number of authors have turned their atten- tion to the question of why children work. The purpose of this paper is to review some of the more recent theoretical and empirical research into the topic of child labor, and to illustrate the fact that no one factor on its...

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Integrating Soil Sciences into Agricultural Production Frontiers

Ekbom, Anders; Alem, Yonas; Sterner, Thomas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

This paper integrates soil science variables into an economic analysis of agricultural output among small-scale farmers in Kenya’s highlands. The integration is valuable because farmers’ choice of inputs depends on both the status of the soil and socio-economic conditions. The study uses a...

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Do Safety Nets Promote Technology Adoption? Panel data evidence from rural Ethiopia

Alem, Yonas; Broussard, Nzinga H. - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

We use panel data from rural Ethiopia to investigate if participation in a safety net program enhances fertilizer adoption. Using a difference-in-difference estimator and inverse propensity score weighting we find that participation in Ethiopia’s food-for-work program increased fertilizer...

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Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Agricultural Productivity in Ethiopia: Does Agroecology Matter?

Kassie, Menale; Zikhali, Precious; Pender, John; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

Sustainable agricultural practices, in as far as they rely on renewable local or farm resources, present desirable options for enhancing agricultural productivity for resource-constrained farmers in developing countries. In this paper, we used two sets of plot-level data—from a low-rainfall...

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Economics of Soil Conservation Adoption in High-Rainfall Areas of the Ethiopian Highlands

Kassie, Menale; Holden, Stein; Köhlin, Gunnar; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

This study measures the impact of fanya juu bunds (an important soil and water conservation technology and the most popular type of contour bund in east Africa) on the value of crop production in a high-rainfall area in the Ethiopian highlands using cross-sectional multiple plot observations. We...

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Market Imperfections and Farm Technology Adoption Decisions - A Case Study from the Highlands of Ethiopia

Yesuf, Mahmud; Köhlin, Gunnar - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

This paper investigates the impacts of market and institutional imperfections on technology adoption in a model that considers fertilizer use and soil conservation to be joint decisions. Controlling for plot characteristics and other factors, we found that a household’s decision to adopt...

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