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Does positional concern matter in poor societies? Evidence from a survey experiment in rural Ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie - 2009
We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269655
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The dynamics of job creation and job destruction: is sub-saharan Africa different?
Shiferaw, Admasu; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2009
This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique panel data of Ethiopian manufacturing establishments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271798
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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262427
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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703686
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Does relative income matter for the very poor? Evidence from rural ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - 2008
cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income has no impact on subjective well-being in rural areas of northern Ethiopia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268940
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Attitudes toward uncertainty among the poor: evidence from rural Ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie; … - 2009
We looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample elicited by the same decision task. Strong risk aversion and ambiguity aversion were found with the Ethiopian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268949
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Testing the inverseness of fertility and labor supply: the case of Ethiopia
Solomon, Blen; Kimmel, Jean - 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/10010269340
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Intrinsic motivations and the non-profit health sector: evidence from Ethiopia
Serra, Danila; Serneels, Pieter; Barr, Abigail - 2010
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/10010269570
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Who wants to work in a rural health post? The role of intrinsic motivation, rural background and faith-based institutions in Rwanda and Ethiopia
Serneels, Pieter; Montalvo, Jose G.; Pettersson, Gunilla; … - 2010
with those from an identical survey in Ethiopia to enable a two-country analysis. We find that health workers with higher …. The main Rwanda result for intrinsic motivation is strikingly similar to that obtained for Ethiopia and Rwanda together …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269883
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Wars and child health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict
Akresh, Richard; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Thirumurthy, Harsha - 2011
Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to …-scores, with the children in the war-instigating and losing country (Eritrea) suffering more than the winning nation (Ethiopia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278717