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Loan regulation and child labor in rural India
Dāśagupta, Bāsaba; Zimmermann, Christian - 2012
We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal … household types. -- child labor ; India ; informal lending ; lending discrimination ; interest rate caps …
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On the optimal size of a joint savings association
Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor; Jakubek, Marcin; … - 2022
We develop a formula for the optimal size of a joint savings association between individuals who share the same … Rotating Savings and Credit Association (ROSCA). We measure the efficiency of a ROSCA by the expected waiting time that it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013270242
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Young entrepreneurs in rural Africa : prevalence, determinants, productivity
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014
Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population. Given the large number of young job seekers that will enter the labor market over the next decade, we need a better understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship,...
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Labor productivity in rural African enterprises : empirical evidence from the LSMS-ISA
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014
Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity. In this paper we contribute to filling this gap by providing estimates of labor productivity in enterprises for Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413138
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Recovery performance of primary agriculture credit societies in India : an assessment
Mazumder, Rabin; Chakravarty, Chandrasekhar; Bhandari, … - 2014
credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having … institution. The present study examines the recovery performance of rural credit given by PACS in six different regions of India … Bank of India in collaboration with State Governments. …
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Fiscal decentralization, rural industrialization, and undocumented labor mobility in rural China (1982-87)
Chen, Yiu Por - 2015
This paper explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization, which gave greater rural industrialization and fiscal authority to local governments, and the emergence of rural-rural undocumented inter-provincial labor migration during China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is...
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Inequality and growth in rural China : does higher inequality impede growth?
Benjamin, Dwayne (contributor); Brandt, Loren (contributor);  … - 2006
We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial inequality is negatively related to subsequent household...
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Living in rural areas and self-employment
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022
This paper examines whether workers living in rural areas are more likely to be self-employed, compared with those in urban areas. We provide evidence for 35 European countries, using the European Working Conditions Survey for the year 2015. We also study the time devoted to market work, and...
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The impact of education on the subjective discount rate in Ugandan villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...
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Household cooking fuel choice in India, 2004-2012 : a panel multinomial analysis
Kuo, Ying-Min; Azam, Mehtabul - 2019
We use two waves of nationally representative India Human Development Survey to examine factors driving the cooking … fuel choice in urban and rural India, separately. We utilize a random effects multinomial logit model that controls for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123088