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The Age of Discontent: Italian Households at the Beginning of the Decade
Boeri, Tito; Brandolini, Andrea - 2005
In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to ?household impoverishment?. Subjective …, estimates based on the Bank of Italy?s Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262639
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Identifying conflict and violence in micro-level surveys
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - 2010
and household welfare. Special attention is paid to methodological issues on how to design a module and operationalize … and discuss a generic household module that can be easily inserted into future socio-economic surveys implemented in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272662
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Labor Supply, Home Production and Welfare Comparisons
Donni, Olivier - 2005
We consider the collective model of labor supply with marketable domestic production. We first show that, if domestic production is mistakenly ignored, the ?collective? indirect utilities that are retrieved from observed behavior will be unbiased if and only if the profit function is additive....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262223
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Labor Supply, Home Production and Welfare Comparisons
Donni, Olivier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We consider the collective model of labor supply with marketable domestic production. We first show that, if domestic production is mistakenly ignored, the “collective” indirect utilities that are retrieved from observed behavior will be unbiased if and only if the profit function is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566507
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Is Women's Ownership of Land a Panacea in Developing Countries? Evidence from Land-Owning Farm Households in Malawi
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2014
Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions … coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of cash crop cultivation by a household increases with the … extent of land owned (or de facto controlled) by males, and (b) and cultivation of cash crops increases household welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333324
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Food for Fuel: The Effect of the US Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Helene; Ural … - 2018
RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a … effect of the price shock on household welfare through consumption and wage incomes. Poor rural households suffer significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931749
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Modernizing Smallholder Agriculture and Achieving Food Security: An Exploration in Machinery Services and Labor Reallocation in China
Zou, Baoling; Mishra, Ashok K. - 2024
connect smallholders with modern agriculture and achieve food security in China. Using household-level data from China, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567572
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Evaluating the Impacts of Minigrid Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ayhan, Sinem H.; Falchetta, Giacomo; Steckel, Jan C. - 2022
household welfare and agricultural development across SSA countries. The empirical analysis makes use of a novel geocoded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426315
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Is Women's Ownership of Land a Panacea in Developing Countries? Evidence from Land-Owning Farm Households in Malawi
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions … coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of cash crop cultivation by a household increases with the … extent of land owned (or de facto controlled) by males, and (b) and cultivation of cash crops increases household welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884103
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Intra-household labor supply, migration, and subsistence constraints in a risky environment: Evidence from rural El Salvador
Halliday, Timothy J. - 2010
We use panel data from El Salvador to investigate migration and the intra-household allocation of labor as a strategy … for coping with uninsured risk. Consistent with a model of a farm household with a binding subsistence constraint, we show … labor within the household in El Salvador. In contrast, after damage sustained from the 2001 earthquakes, female migration …
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