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Sexual bias and household consumption : a semiparametric analysis of Engel curves in rural China

Gong, Xiaodong; Soest, Arthur van; Zhang, Ping - 2000

We analyze Engel curves for nuclear households in rural China. The sample includes more than 5000 nuclear families covering nineteen out of thirty Chinese provinces. We consider expenditures on food, also subdivided into several food subcategories such as cereals, or meat and fish, and other...

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Marshall and labour demand in Russia : going back to basics

Konings, Jozef; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2001

Using a unique enterprise-level data set, which covers the regions Moscow City, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk and Chuvashia and the three sectors manufacturing and mining, construction and trade and distribution, we estimate Russian labour demand equations for the year 1997. The most important...

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Validating the collective model of household consumption using direct evidence on sharing

Bargain, Olivier; Lacroix, Guy; Tiberti, Luca - 2018

Recent advances in the collective model literature suggest ways to estimate the complete allocation of resources within households, using assignable goods and assuming adult preference similarity across demographic groups (or across spouses). While it makes welfare analysis at the individual...

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Gains from trade and the food Engel curve

Farrokhi, Farid; Jinkins, David; Chong, Xiang - 2022

with observed household consumption decisions. Our approach is based on inference from household-level estimation of food …

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Food aid and violent conflict : a review of literature

Koppenberg, Maximilian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Hirsch, Stefan - 2023

conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the … variables estimation, they have not succeeded in i) using instruments that pass the necessary tests of instrumental variable … estimation and ii) identifying the channels through which food aid influences conflict. We argue that future work should contain …

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Impacts of double-fortified salt on anemia and cognition: four-year follow-up evidence from a school-based nutrition intervention in India

Grafenstein, Liza von; Kumar, Abhijeet; Kumar, Santosh; … - 2021

intervention in India. Using panel data, we examine the effectiveness of the use of iron and iodine fortified salt in school …

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Partial identification of the long-run causal effect of food security on child health

Millimet, Daniel L.; Roy, Manan - 2013

Food security and obesity represent two of the most significant public health issues. However, little is known about how these issues are intertwined. Here, we assess the causal relationship between food security during early childhood and relatively long-run measures of child health....

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Liquidity constraints, household wealth, and entrepreneurship revisited

Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor); … - 2006

Hurst and Lusardi (2004) recently challenged the long-standing belief that liquidity constraints are important causal determinants of entry into self-employment. They demonstrate that the oft-cited positive relationship between entry rates and assets is actually unchanging as assets increase...

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A distributional analysis of social group inequality in rural India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2009

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India …. -- India ; social groups ; inequality ; quantile regression decomposition …

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Female labour force participation and child education in India : the effect of the national rural employment guarantee scheme

Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - 2012

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …

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