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Land ceiling legislations, land acquisition and de-industrialisation: theory and evidence from the Indian states

Pal, Sarmistha; Chowdhury, Prabal Roy; Saher, Zoya - 2021

We examine the impact of legislated land ceiling size on capital investment and industrialisation in the Indian states. India's land ceiling legislations of 1960s and 1970s imposed a ceiling on maximum land holdings and redistributed above-ceiling lands. These ceiling legislations, effectively...

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The wealth, health and wellbeing of Ireland's older people before and during the economic crisis

Barrett, Alan; O'Sullivan, Vincent - 2013

The economic crisis of 2008/9 was felt more acutely in Ireland relative to elsewhere and culminated in the international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between wealth collapses and movements in variables such as health and...

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Height, weight and well-being for rural, urban and migrant workers in China

Lee, Wang-Sheng; Zhao, Zhong - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Social Indicators Research

In general, the happiness literature has paid little attention to the relationship between physical appearance and well-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being for three distinct samples in China given that attractiveness effects likely vary greatly across...

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Did program support for the poorest areas work? : evidence from rural Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh; Deininger, Klaus W.; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2024

We investigate the impact of a large-scale poverty alleviation program targeted at 62 poorest districts in Vietnam … we do not find significant program effects on household welfare (as measured by per capita income and poverty) and local … provides to participating households. We also find that the program increases household access to electricity, public transfer …

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Land access and poverty among agricultural households in Nigeria

Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2024

potential relationship between land access and household poverty-related outcomes is highly relevant for both land and social … welfare policy and is the focus of our paper. Using data from the four waves of the Nigeria General Household Panel Survey … (GHS), we examine how the amount of land an agricultural household operates and the value of that land affect the …

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Transition from plan to market, height and well-being

Adserà, Alícia; Dalla Pozza, Francesca; Guriev, Sergej; … - 2019

Using newly available data, we re-evaluate the impact of transition from plan to market in former communist countries on objective and subjective well-being. We find clear evidence of the high social cost of early transition reforms: cohorts born around the start of transition are shorter than...

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Getting warmer: fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being

Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021

This paper uses data from Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the association between …

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Earmarked paternity leave and well-being

Korsgren, Pontus; Lent, Max van - 2022

Earmarked paternity leave has been introduced in an attempt to increase fathers’ involvement in child rearing and to achieve gender equality in the labor market and at home. So far well-being effects of such policies are unexplored. This paper takes a first step in that direction by studying...

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Income volatility, health and well-being

Adeline, Amélie; Choinière Crèvecoeur, Ismael; … - 2019

While there is mounting evidence that large income shocks, e.g. in the form of a job loss, may impact health and mortality, little evidence exist on the potential relationship between sustained income volatility, keeping average lifetime income constant, and health. This paper exploits rich...

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Forced off farm? : labor allocation response to land requisition in rural China

Shuang Ma; Mu, Ren - 2017

test confirms that the finding is unlikely to be driven by unobserved variables associated with household experience of …

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