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Are Hispanic immigrant families reviving the economies of America’s small towns?
Coates, Dennis; Gindling, Thomas - 2010
In the 1990s, rural areas and small towns in the United States, which had been losing population, became the destinations for an increasing number of Hispanic immigrants and their families, slowing and in some cases reversing population declines. In this paper, we examine whether faster growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933583
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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607330
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After the farm crisis : religiosity in the rural United States
Orman, Wafa Hakim - 2013
agriculture. Chen (2010) describes increased religiosity in Indonesia following the 1998 financial crisis, and this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774263
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Wage work for women : the menstrual cycle and the power of water
Maimaiti, Yasheng; Siebert, William S. - 2010
in China. Controlling for village fixed effects, poor access to water is found to decrease the probability of wage work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941433
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Geography vs. institutions at the village level
Grimm, Michael (contributor); Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2008
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003666472
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Villages where China's ethnic minorities live
Gustafsson, Björn (contributor); Ding, Sai (contributor) - 2006
This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village … somewhat better economic situation than the average majority village, but minority villages in the southwest are clearly faring … local labour market as well as indicators of path dependency are all found to affect the economic situation of a village …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497602
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Does it pay to be a cadre? : estimating the returns to being a local official in rural China
Zhang, Jian; Giles, John T.; Rozelle, Scott - 2012
-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … cadre status, but the magnitudes are not large and provide only a modest incentive to participate in village …-level government. The paper does not find evidence that households of village cadres earn significant rents from having a family member …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009550664
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Is women's ownership of land a panacea in developing countries? : evidence from land-owning farm households in Malawi
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2014
Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of cash crop cultivation by a household increases with the extent of land owned (or de facto controlled) by males,...
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Gender, information and the efficiency of household production decisions : an experiment in rural Togo
Apedo-Amah, Marie Christine; Djebbari, Habiba; Ziparo, … - 2020
Why do farm households inefficiently allocate resources across the plots they cultivate? We explore how these production inefficiencies relate to consumption decisions and information sharing within the household. In a lab-in-the-field experiment, male producers allocate too few inputs to their...
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Does violent conflict affect labor supply of farm households? : the Nigerian experience
Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2021
agriculture. Using a nationally representative panel dataset for Nigeria from 2010-2015, in combination with armed conflict data … that on average, exposure to violent conflict significantly reduces total family labor supply hours in agriculture. We also …
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