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; dynamics ; Africa ; Asia ; Latin America … that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … but positive in Africa. We suggest that amongst reasons why African women behave differently are that the conventional …
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This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers...
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According to standard economic theory, households should equate the marginal revenue product of an input across activities within the household. However, this prediction may not hold in the presence of risk. Using data on farm plots and non-farm enterprises in Malawi, we examine the impact of...
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Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the …
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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...
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The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which …
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South Africa is one of only a handful of countries in which the prevalence of child stunting has increased over the …
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America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004, and carries out "second-generation" tests for non-stationary panels …
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The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … the best of our knowledge, that the productivity of rural non-farm enterprises in Africa has been studied in this way. …
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