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Perspectives on the Early Retirement Decisions of Farming Couples

Väre, Minna; Heshmati, Almas - 2004

is important to establish the factors determining the exit from farming among elderly farmers. This study analyses the … choice of pension scheme of farmers. The focus is on the effects of farm and off-farm incomes and various offered economic … incentives on farmers? retirement decisions. The results provide valuable information concerning evaluation of existing …

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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...

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Forced off Farm? Labor Allocation Response to Land Requisition in Rural China

Ma, Shuang; Mu, Ren - 2017

revenue. This study investigates the impacts of land requisition on farmers' decisions of labor allocation between … a quasi-natural experiment to identify the relationship between land rights and labor allocation of farmers. We find … that young farmers (age 16-44) are not affected in their migration decisions by land loss through requisition, while some …

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The Effects of Access to Credit on Productivity: Separating Technological Changes from Changes in Technical Efficiency

Jimi, Nusrat Abedin; Nikolov, Plamen; Malek, Mohammad Abdul - 2019

on the overall productivity of rice farmers and disentangled the total effect into technological change (frontier shift …

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Social Capital, Entrepreneurship and Living Standards: Differences between Immigrants and the Native Born

Roskruge, Matthew; Poot, Jacques; King, Laura - 2016

Both migrant entrepreneurship and social capital are topics which have attracted a great deal of attention. However, relatively little econometric analysis has been done on their interrelationship. In this paper we first consider the relationship between social capital and the prevalence of...

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Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data

Brainerd, Elizabeth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic growth...

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Poverty, inequality, and the local natural resource curse

Loayza, Norman; Mier y Teran, Alfredo; Rigolini, Jamele - 2013

The extent to which local communities benefit from commodity booms has been subject to wide but inconclusive investigations. This paper draws from a new district-level database to investigate the local impact on socioeconomic outcomes of mining activity in Peru, which grew almost twentyfold in...

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Economic gains from publicly provided education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2007

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...

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The impact of home production on economic inequality in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2009

Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach based...

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Building a Better Theory of Well-Being

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2003

What do social surveys of life cycle experience tell us about the determinants of subjective well-being? First, that the psychologists? setpoint model is wrong. Life events in the nonpecuniary domain, such as marriage, divorce, and physical disability, have a lasting effect on well-being, and do...

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