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Risky environments, hidden knowledge, and preferences for contract flexibility : an artefactual field experiment
Kunte, Sebastian; Wollni, Meike - 2015
Contract flexibility can be expedient for economic exchange in environments with high ambiguity and risk, but may also encourage opportunistic behavior. We run a modified investment game, including the choice between two different contract designs and asymmetric information about the realized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529510
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Impacts of supermarkets on farm household nutrition in Kenya
Chege, Christine G. K.; Andersson, Camilla I. M.; Qaim, … - 2014
. Here, we analyze impacts on farm household nutrition. Building on data from vegetable farmers in Kenya, we show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353359
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Supermarkets and the nutrition transition in Kenya
Rischke, Ramona; Chege Kimenju, Simon; Qaim, Matin; … - 2014
using cross-sectional household survey data collected in Kenya in 2012. In order to establish causality, our sample was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239932
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Farmers' preferences for supermarket contracts in Kenya
Ochieng, Dennis O.; Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan; … - 2016
heterogeneity for contracts in Kenya. In the study region, supermarkets use contracts to source for fresh vegetables directly from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526473
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Nutrition effects of the supermarket revolution on urban consumers and smallholder farmers in Kenya
Qaim, Matin; Andersson, Camilla I. M.; Chege, Christine … - 2014
understanding. Reviewing recent evidence from Kenya, we show that buying food in supermarkets instead of traditional outlets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430779
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Following up on smallholder farmers and supermarkets
Andersson, Camilla I. M.; Kiria, Christine G.; Qaim, Matin - 2013
analysis focuses on vegetable producers in Kenya. Participation in supermarket channels is associated with large income gains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235109
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Mobile money, market transactions, and household income in rural Kenya
Kikulwe, Enoch M.; Fischer, Elisabeth; Qaim, Matin - 2013
using panel data from smallholder farmers in Kenya. Mobile money use has a large positive net impact on household income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235110
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Gender, agricultural commercialization, and collective action in Kenya
Fischer, Elisabeth; Qaim, Matin - 2012
technology could potentially accelerate this trend. Here, we use survey data of small-scale banana producers in Kenya to … investigate the gender implications of recently established farmer groups. Traditionally, banana has been a women’s crop in Kenya …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235149
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Farmer participation in supermarket channels, production technology, and efficiency : the case of vegetables in Kenya
Rao, Elizaphan James Oburu; Brümmer, Bernhard; Qaim, Matin - 2011
farmers in Kenya. Participation in supermarket channels increases farm productivity in terms of meta-technology ratios by 45 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235166
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Smallholder farmers and collective action : what determines the intensity of participation?
Fischer, Elisabeth; Qaim, Matin - 2011
participation intensity and free-riding, using the example of banana groups in Kenya. The results suggest that family labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235167