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Can crop purchase programs reduce poverty and improve welfare in rural communities? : evidence from the food reserve agency in Zambia

Fung, Winnie; Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda; Mason, Nicole - 2015

The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects of these programs. This article considers one such...

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Evaluating dominance ranking of PSID incomes by various household attributes

Maasoumi, Esfandiar (contributor); … - 2005

We examine the dynamic evolution of incomes, both disposable and gross, for several groups in the PSID panel data at several points from 1968 to 1997. We employ the extended Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests of First and Second Order Stochastic Dominance (SD) as implemented by Maasoumi and Heshmati...

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Equilibrium allele distribution in trading populations

Saint-Paul, Gilles (contributor) - 2006

This paper derives the conditions under which fitness-reducing alleles can survive in a long-run stationary equilibrium for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for arbitrary systems of sexual reproduction. -- trade ; genotypes ; natural selection ; gene-culture...

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Your move : the effect of chess on mathematics test scores

Gumede, Kamilla; Rosholm, Michael - 2015

We analyze the effect of substituting a weekly mathematics lessons in primary school grades 1-3 with a lesson in mathematics based on chess instruction. We use data from the City of Aarhus in Denmark, combining test score data with a comprehensive data base from administrative register. We use a...

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Determinants of employment growth at MNEs : evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Regional income inequality in selected large countries

Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...

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Must skilled migration be a brain drain? : Evidence from the Indian software industry

Commander, Simon; Chanda, Rupa; Kangasniemi, Mari; … - 2004

software firms in India. The results are not generally consistent with an adverse or brain drain story but provide a more … software firms in India. The results are not generally consistent with an adverse or brain drain story but provide a more …

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Earnings inequality in India : has the rise of caste and religion based politics in India had an impact?

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar (contributor); … - 2006

state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …-religion earnings in India during the 1987-99 period, using the 43rd and 55th rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS). Our results … inter-religion earnings differences to a great extent. -- inequality ; caste ; religion ; India …

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School attendance of children and the work of mothers : a joint multilevel model for India

Francavilla, Francesca (contributor); … - 2008

Survey (NFHS-2) for India, we find that, controlling for many covariates among which wealth is the most powerful predictor … market. -- Childrenś schooling ; womenś work ; household allocation of time ; random effects ; India …

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Steering towards the high road: a study of human resource management in two Indian garment factories

Lake, Henrietta (contributor) - 2007

resource management systems at two garment factories manufacturing for export in India. They make the same product for the same … management ; labor productivity ; labor standards ; India ; garments …

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