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The microfinance of reproduction and the reproduction of microfinance: understanding the connections between microfinance, empowerment, contraception and fertility in Bangladesh in...
Duvendack, Maren; Palmer-Jones, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Microfinance (MF) and family planning (FP) are thought to be very important interventions in the promotion of human …, Schuler and Riley (1996); Schuler and Hashemi (1994), using naive methods find that MF in Bangladesh increases contraceptive … outweigh substitution. Steele et al (2001), also using data from Bangladesh from around the same time as the PKML study, come …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223353
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Microfinance and Moneylenders: Long-run Effects of MFIs on Informal Credit Market in Bangladesh
Berg, Claudia; Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260674
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Microfinance and Moneylender Interest Rate: Evidence from Bangladesh
Mallick, Debdulal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
. This paper addresses one important aspect of the linkage by empirically investigating the impact of the microfinance … program expansion on the moneylender interest rates in Bangladesh, and finds that moneylender interest rates increase with … microfinance program expansion. MFI program expansion increases moneylender interest rates in the villages in which more loans are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506913
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Spatial design matrices and associated quadratic forms: structure and properties
Hillier, Grant; Martellosio, Federico - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The paper provides significant simplifications and extensions of results obtained by Gorsich, Genton, and Strang (J. Multivariate Anal. 80 (2002) 138) on the structure of spatial design matrices. These are the matrices implicitly defined by quadratic forms that arise naturally in modelling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005020502
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Identifiability of the Stochastic Frontier Models
Bandyopadhyay, Debdas; Das, Arabinda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper examines the identifiability of the standard single-equation stochastic frontier models with uncorrelated and correlated error components giving, inter alia, mathematical content to the notion of “near-identifiability” of a statistical model. It is seen that these models are at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621989
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Does ethnic diversity decrease economic interactions? Evidence from exchange networks in rural Gambia
Arcand, Jean-Louis; Jaimovich, Dany - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Using a unique dataset collected in 59 rural Gambian villages, we study how ethnic heterogeneity is related to the structure of four economic exchange networks: land, labor, inputs and credit. We find that different measures of village-level ethnic fragmentation are mostly uncorrelated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107305
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Missing links, missing markets: Internal exchanges, reciprocity and external connections in the economic networks of Gambian villages
Jaimovich, Dany - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
A unique dataset of social and economic networks collected in 60 rural Gambian villages is used to study the ways in which households with links outside the village (that are considered as a proxy for market connections) behave in the locally available exchange networks for land, labor, input...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107577
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SELLING OUR WAY INTO POVERTY: The Commercialisation of Poverty in Malawi
Bokosi, Fanwell Kenala - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The aim of the article is to investigate the impact of commercialisation on household poverty in Malawi using the 1997/98 Integrated Household Survey data. The results indicate that overall those household who were more commercialised were better off than those who did not and thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616643
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Food environment and childhood obesity: The effect of dollar stores
Drichoutis, Andreas C.; Nayga, Rodolfo M.; Rouse, Heather L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In this paper we examine the effect of dollar stores on children's Body Mass Index (BMI). We use a dataset compiled by the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement which created and implemented the BMI screening process for all public school children in the state of Arkansas. We combine propensity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185698
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Food environment and childhood obesity: The effect of dollar stores
Drichoutis, Andreas C.; Nayga, Rodolfo M.; Rouse, Heather L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In this paper we examine the effect of dollar stores on children's Body Mass Index (BMI). We use data from a dataset compiled by the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement which created and implemented the BMI screening process for all public school children in the state of Arkansas. We combine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112602