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variation in weather at various times of the growing season. Results strongly reject additivity and suggest that weather shocks …
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In this paper we investigate the factors affecting income levels, income growth, and poverty reduction in rural Indonesia following the crisis of 1997/98. We particu- larly investigate the relative roles of non-farm incomes, productivity improvements achieved via changes in crops versus...
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While several studies have shown that genetically modified Bt cotton can benefit smallholder farmers economically, the sustainability of these effects is still unclear and debated controversially between biotechnology proponents and critics. We use unique panel data of 533 cotton farmers,...
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Using detailed longitudinal data from the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS) from 1998 to 2008, this paper analyzes gender-specific impacts as well as anticipation and adaptation to major life and labor market events. We focus on six major events: marriage, divorce, widowhood,...
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Italy and Norway are characterized by different household patterns of young adults, with young Italians being more likely to live in their parents' house and young Norwegians more likely to live independently, alone or in multi-occupant households. This paper asks why, and how these differences...
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Shared residence for children has increased considerably in recent years among parents living apart in Norway, while … for their children, compared to only 10 percent in 2004. Such an arrangement is most common among highly educated parents …
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This study describes the association between having children and the risk of union disruption, and whether this … couples with children have lower union dissolution risk. Union dissolution risk is lowest when children are young, and also … varies by number of children. There is little change over historical time in the correlation between having children and the …
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This study investigates how the association between union dissolution and childlessness depends on life course context. Data on union histories and fertility are taken from the Norwegian GGS. To observe union histories up to age 45, I include men and women born 1927-1962, giving a study sample...
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interest. We utilize exogenous variation in family income and the direct cost of children to estimate causal effects on … group. Individual-level multivariate analysis suggests that a reduced direct cost of children increases fertility, mainly … price of children is also likely to induce a shift towards non-union childbearing or childbearing in less stable unions. …
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cohabiting couples. We are particularly interested in assessing whether the negative relation between children and women … less than their male partners and that the presence of small children in the household was negatively related to women …’s earnings. However, results from interaction models showed that the negative association between having young children and women …
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