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Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited … sample of smallholder farmers in rural Mozambique. This sample included a set of primary farmers and their closest farming … fertilizer salience in the remunerated savings treatment may have been important to focus farmers' (limited) attention on saving …
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unaffected. Farmers, on the other hand, do not change food spending patterns, but self-rated food sufficiency improves due to …
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the birth and growth of the Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) program, review the academic literature that has focused on …
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women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri …
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relatively new plant-level panel dataset from Cambodia, this paper applies survival analysis to estimate the relationship between …
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lab-in-the-field experiment conducted in Cambodia. Half of the subjects face the risk to lose a large proportion of their …
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the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia's WTO accession to assess how changes in the employment of women …
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constraints on in-group bias in prosocial behaviors – cooperation, norm enforcement, and sharing – among low-income rice farmers … in rural Thailand, who cultivate and harvest rice once a year. We use a between-subjects design – randomly assigning … participants to experiments either before harvest (more financially constrained) or after harvest. Farmers interacted with either …
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This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in the country's market transition. I show that the...
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Tanah bengkok (bengkok land) in Java, Indonesia boasts a unique institution where elected village leaders receive usufruct rights to a parcel of land owned by the village, in lieu of salary. Despite its relevance to the political economy of land distribution in Java, unavailability of systematic...
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