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Food insecurity and insufficiency at low levels of food expenditures
Gundersen, Craig (contributor); Ribar, David C. (contributor) - 2005
This study uses data from the December 2003 Food Security Supplement of the CPS to compare the food insufficiency and … insecurity measures with objective measures of food expenditures and objective and subjective measures of food needs. The study … examines the general relationships between these variables and finds that reports of food hardships are positively associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002805355
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When distance drives destination, towns can stimulate development
De Weerdt, Joachim; Christiaensen, Luc J.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2021
While city migrants see their welfare increase much more than those moving to towns, many more rural-urban migrants end up in towns. This phenomenon, documented in detail in Kagera, Tanzania, begs the question why migrants move to seemingly suboptimal destinations. Using an 18-year panel of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484443
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Fetal malnutrition and academic success : evidence from Muslim immigrants in Denmark
Greve, Jane; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal - 2015
This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in utero as a natural experiment, under the assumption that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337122
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Do large employers pay more in developing countries? : the case of five African countries
Strobl, Eric; Thornton, Robert J. - 2002
Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415323
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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
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Remittances and child labour in Africa : evidence from Burkina Faso
Bargain, Olivier; 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/10010252636
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Heterogeneity in subjective wellbeing : an application to occupational allocation in Africa
Falco, Paolo; Maloney, William F.; Rijkers, Bob; … - 2012
dataset from Ghana, this paper examines the distribution of subjective wellbeing across sectors of employment and offers …-employment ; informality ; developing country labor markets ; Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009680989
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Why are Africa's female entrepreneurs not playing the export game? : evidence from Ghana
Ackah, Charles; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Hornok, … - 2020
We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel … and security concerns, are more deeply felt by female entrepreneurs. This may hint at the exclusion of Africa's females …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296187
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The impact of rural-urban migration on the health of the left-behind parents
Ao, Xiang; Jiang, Dawei; Zhao, Zhong - 2015
Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China has begun a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization. Along with an increasing number of rural people migrating to urban area for jobs, there are a considerable number of elderly parents left behind in the rural area. The impact of...
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Son preference and human capital investment among China's rural-urban migrant households
Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - 2018
We use several datasets to study whether son preference prevails in the human capital investment among Chinese rural-urban migrant households. We find that son preference exists among the rural migrants' households and that it caused lower probabilities relative to that of their boy counterparts...
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