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Child Labour, human capital formation and size of landholding: short run and long run analysis
Chakraborty, Bidisha; Chakraborty, Kamalika - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 2024-2037
capital accumulation of child depends on time devoted by child for schooling and financial resources invested towards … run as well as long run effects of increase in size of land holding on child labour, human capital formation and growth … and earns wage proportional to human capital and the child is employed in the land possessed by the household and also …
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Life expectancy, schooling and lifetime labor supply: the Ben-Porath mechanism revisited
Liu, Pan - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 133-139
life expectancy has a positive effect on schooling but a negative effect on expected lifetime labor supply. This paper …
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Stochastic Dominance, Poverty and the Treatment Effect Curve
Verme, Paolo - 2010
The paper proposes a simple framework for the evaluation of anti-poverty programs based on single means differences, FGT poverty measures and stochastic dominance theory. A Treatment Effect Curve (TEC) is derived and its use illustrated with simulated data
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The effects of social networks on the diffusion of consumer goods: Evidence from rural Indonesia
Nakai, Ryosuke; Todo, Yasuyuki - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 1814-1821
This study examines the effect of social networks on the decision to purchase consumer products among 337 rural households in Indonesia. In particular, we focus on two types of products: gas stoves and probiotic drinks. The two types are different in that the benefits of the use of gas stoves...
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Cluster-Corrected Standard Errors with Exact Locations Known: An Example from Rural Indonesia
Gibson, John; Kim, Bonggeun; Olivia, Susan - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 1857-1863
Cluster-corrected standard errors are widely used but may sometimes be inappropriate since household surveys are increasingly geo-referenced. Compared with the appropriate spatial error models that use details on exact locations, cluster corrections impose untested restrictions on spatial...
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Women's Health Knowledge, Sexual Empowerment, and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Araujo, Pedro de; Miller, Margaux - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 1875-1890
The HIV/AIDS epidemic is one of the greatest challenges facing economic and social development in sub-Saharan Africa. Women of reproductive age (15 - 49) have the greatest risk and prevalence of HIV in this region. Increased female vulnerability to HIV stems from limited access to health care...
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Development and biodiversity conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A spatial analysis
Amin, Ariane; Choumert, Johanna - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 729-744
The current study seeks to provide a sound analysis of the relationship between economic development and species loss in Sub-Saharan African countries. The motivation is that a better understanding of the impact of economic development on species loss is of great relevance, given the current...
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The Emergence of Agriculture: Trickle-Down Growth and Climate Change
Teraji, Shinji - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 913-922
This paper analyzes a model of the transition to agriculture by allowing heterogeneous agents to make the decision on whether to engage in farming or foraging. The threshold level, which divides foragers from farmers, depends on both agricultural productivity and foraging efficiency. As...
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International Development Aid Allocation Determinants
Mishra, Tapas; Ouattara, Bazoumana; Parhi, Mamata - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 2, pp. 1385-1403
This paper investigates the factors explaining aid allocation by bilateral and multilateral donors. We use data for 146 aid recipient countries over the period 1990-2007 and employ Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates Approach (BACE) approach and find that both the recipient need and donor...
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Domestic debt in Low-Income Countries
Presbitero, Andrea F. - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 2, pp. 1099-1112
pattern is mirrored by a greater capital accumulation, a faster financial development, and a stronger output growth. This …
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