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households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly transient in rural Ethiopia. However, we find that the trend in … ; multidimensional poverty index ; rural Ethiopia …
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surveys conducted over the past decade in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam, we find encouraging …
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cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income has no impact on subjective well-being in rural areas of northern Ethiopia …
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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 …
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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...
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We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey … country. -- Ethiopia ; positional concern ; relative income …
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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...
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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 …
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destruction ; job reallocation ; firm dynamics ; Sub-Saharan Africa ; Ethiopia …
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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...
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