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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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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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In this paper, we study how classmate gender composition matters for students in Ethiopia. We base our results on a …
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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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This paper revisits the causes behind child labor supply by focusing on an aspect that has received little attention: the link between the household head's risk and time preferences and observed child labor supply. We develop a theoretical model and empirically test for this causality using data...
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across space in both countries. In Ethiopia rural non-farm enterprises are more productive in locations where farms are less … significant determinants of the labour productivity of non-farm enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria. This is the first time, to …
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I document negative externalities of air pollution in the Indian agricultural sector. Using variation in pollution … induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity …, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …
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Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I document three important findings. First, there is clear evidence of sorting into sectors, with very large differences in worker human capital across the farm and non-farm sectors and...
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This paper examines the role of a sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions quota introduced as part of China's 11th Five-Year Plan on internal movements of high-skilled labour across Chinese prefecture cities. Using data on migration flows calculated through changes in Hukou status, this study suggests...
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Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate revenue. This study investigates the impacts of land requisition on farmers' decisions of labor allocation between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. We argue that,...
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