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Does relative income matter for the very poor? : evidence from rural ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan (contributor); Martinsson, Peter (contributor) - 2008
cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income has no impact on subjective well-being in rural areas of northern Ethiopia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771936
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Testing the inverseness of fertility and labor supply : the case of Ethiopia
Solomon, Blen (contributor); Kimmel, Jean (contributor) - 2009
We test the inverseness of fertility and labor supply for married women in Ethiopia to determine if previous research … addressing the endogeneity of fertility. Using data from the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) of Ethiopia, we use the husband … fertility and labor supply in Ethiopia, perhaps because the persistence of traditional family structures in the face of rising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796331
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Attitudes toward uncertainty among the poor : evidence from rural Ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie; … - 2009
We looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample elicited by the same decision task. Strong risk aversion and ambiguity aversion were found with the Ethiopian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860719
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Does positional concern matter in poor societies? : evidence from a survey experiment in rural Ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie - 2009
We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey … country. -- Ethiopia ; positional concern ; relative income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884087
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Intrinsic motivations and the non-profit health sector : evidence from Ethiopia
Serra, Danila; Serneels, Pieter; Barr, Abigail - 2010
Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also important. In recent work, economic theorists have started to build psychological factors, like intrinsic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003939212
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Who wants to work in a rural health post? : the role of intrinsic motivation, rural background and faith-based institutions in Rwanda and Ethiopia
Serneels, Pieter; García Montalvo, José; Pettersson, … - 2010
with those from an identical survey in Ethiopia to enable a two-country analysis. We find that health workers with higher …. The main Rwanda result for intrinsic motivation is strikingly similar to that obtained for Ethiopia and Rwanda together …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944294
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The dynamics of job creation and job destruction : is sub-saharan Africa different?
Shiferaw, Admasu; Bedi, Arjun Singh - 2009
destruction ; job reallocation ; firm dynamics ; Sub-Saharan Africa ; Ethiopia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925560
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On the origins of gender roles : women and the plough
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307460
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Why use ROSCAs when you can use banks? : theory and evidence from Ethiopia
Kedir, Abbi Mamo; Disney, Richard; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2011
household data for Ethiopia, that in fact use of formal institutions and ROSCAs can co-exist, even in the same household. We … consistent with these empirical facts. -- household saving ; credit institutions ; ROSCAs ; Ethiopia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308836
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Remittances and child labour in Africa : evidence from Burkina Faso
Boutin, Delphine - 2014
This paper explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. Given the complex relationship between remittance receipt and child labour, our identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360846