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Why Use ROSCAs When You Can Use Banks? Theory and Evidence from Ethiopia
Kedir, Abbi M. - 2011
household data for Ethiopia, that in fact use of formal institutions and ROSCAs can co-exist, even in the same household. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123599
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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124476
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Can an Ethnic Group Climb Up from the Bottom of the Ladder?
Epstein, Gil S. - 2012
Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to determine whether a specific group of immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099768
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Dynamics and Drivers of Consumption and Multidimensional Poverty : Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Brück, Tilman - 2013
households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly transient in rural Ethiopia. However, we find that the trend in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082173
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Intrinsic Motivations and the Non-Profit Health Sector : Evidence from Ethiopia
Serra, Danila - 2015
Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also important. In recent work, economic theorists have started to build psychological factors, like intrinsic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039127
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Does Positional Concern Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan - 2009
We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157033
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Testing the Inverseness of Fertility and Labor Supply : The Case of Ethiopia
Solomon, Blen - 2009
We test the inverseness of fertility and labor supply for married women in Ethiopia to determine if previous research … addressing the endogeneity of fertility. Using data from the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) of Ethiopia, we use the husband … fertility and labor supply in Ethiopia, perhaps because the persistence of traditional family structures in the face of rising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765218
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Welfare Effect and Elite Capture in Agricultural Cooperatives Intervention : Evidence from Ethiopian Villages
Gelo, Dambala - 2019
Ethiopia on per capita income as well as across sub-social groups. The intervention is intended to improve the market power of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864880
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Free Primary Education, Schooling, and Fertility : Evidence from Ethiopia
Chicoine, Luke - 2016
generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by this reform is identified using both … reform. The model finds that the removal of school fees in Ethiopia led to an increase of over 1.5 years of schooling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978159
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Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa : Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
Owoo, Nkechi - 2014
across space in both countries. In Ethiopia rural non-farm enterprises are more productive in locations where farms are less … significant determinants of the labour productivity of non-farm enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria. This is the first time, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051020