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Trade Liberalisation and Child Welfare: Assessing the Impact of a Free Trade Agreement Between Peru and the USA
Escobal, Javier; Ponce, Carmen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Peru is in the process of negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with the USA which would eliminate trade concessions … on most goods and services. This paper analyses the potential impacts of such extensive trade liberalisation for Peru … vulnerable population groups are analysed to assess whether children will be at an increased risk. The modelling exercise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109680
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Does Having a Newborn Child Affect Income Diversification Opportunities?: Evidence from the Peruvian Young Lives Study
Escobal, Javier; Suárez, Pablo; Huttly, Sharon; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
). Comparisons are made with the overall population in Peru, and with the income diversification patterns of households in the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111082
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In Search of Gender Bias in Household Resource Allocation in Rural China
Song, Lina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether increasing the women's bargaining power alters household expenditure patterns. Second, whether households allocate fewer resources to daughters than to sons. Third, whether increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619664
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Technical efficiency of rice producing households in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam
Huynh-Truong, Huy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Technical Efficiency (TE) is defined as an estimation of the ability of a household to produce the maximum output with the given inputs. It is usually estimated by using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). Data collected from 261 rice farming households in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149399
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Whose incentives? The evolution of inheritance practices, intergenerational conflict, and women’s control over land in rural Kenya
Linkow, Benjamin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Land related investment decisions are shaped by both the formal and informal institutions governing land tenure and acquisition. In the case of agricultural Kikuyu households in Kenya, we show that the inheritance practice of uncertain allocation in conjunction with the principle of equal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541489
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Intrahousehold Analysis Using Household Consumption Data: Would the Potential Benefit of Collecting Individual-Level Consumption Data Justify Its Cost?
Fuwa, Nobuhiko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper examines the usefulness and limits of household consumption expenditure data for understanding intrahousehold resource allocation issues. It also examines alternative data collection methods for obtaining household consumption information to be used for addressing such issues. While...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534247
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Testing for Separation in Agricultural Household Models and Unobservable Household-Specific Effects
Arcand, Jean-Louis; d'Hombres, Beatrice - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
When market structure is complete, factor demands by households will be independent of their characteristics, and households will take their production decisions as if they were profit-maximizing firms. This observation constitutes the basis for one of the most popular empirical tests for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616930
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Look who's talking: the impacts of the intrahousehold allocation of mobile phones on agricultural prices
Lee, Kyeong Ho; Bellemare, Marc F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Using data from the Philippines, we study the impact of mobile phones on the prices agricultural producers receive for their cash crop. We first look at the impact on price of mobile phone ownership at the household level. Because this masks a considerable amount of heterogeneity, we then look...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110475
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Microfinance and Missing Markets
Emran, M. Shahe; Morshed, A.K.M Mahbub; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The existing theoretical analysis of microfinance focuses on the nature of the loan contract such as group liability. We draw attention to the role of missing or imperfect labor market in understanding some of the important `second generation' debates in microfinance. Our analysis helps explain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111423
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Growing up together: Cohort composition and child investment
Jones, Kelly M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In sub-Saharan Africa, 60 % of child deaths are preventable by investments in child health as simple as immunizations, bed nets, or water purification. This article investigates how a household’s decisions regarding such investments are affected by the size and gender composition of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112449