Showing 1 - 10 of 383
provide one of the few reliable sources of income in the countryside. In this paper, we study the economic and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467466
present in their communities. We compare these findings to the prior beliefs of experts on likely impacts, and discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480675
To isolate the impact of access to electricity on local economies, we examine the impact of the Rural Electrification Administration low-interest loans in the 1930s. The REA provided loans to cooperatives to lay distribution lines to farms and aid in wiring homes. Consequently, the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458920
This paper uses historical census data from Burkina Faso to characterize local demographic pressures associated with internal migration into river valleys after Onchocerciasis eradication, combined with a new survey of village elders to document change over time and differences across villages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460939
Work requirements in means-tested transfer programs have grown in importance in the U.S. and in some other countries. The theoretical literature which considers their possible optimality generally operates within a traditional welfarist framework where some function of the utility of the poor is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466299
management may have been offset by communities' inability to control grazing by non-participating herds and inhibited by an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696378
In recent decades contract farming has emerged as a popular mechanism to encourage vertical coordination in developing country agriculture. The goal of such coordination is to better integrate smallholder farmers into the modern agricultural food system, fostering rural transformation. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479616
-level aggregate income shocks, and show that this decline is related to observable economic changes: the shift from agriculture to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334362
This paper proposes a fully nonparametric model to investigate the dynamics of intergenerational income mobility for … discrete outcomes. In our model, an individual's income class probabilities depend on parental income in a manner that … Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we find that race and parental education interact with parental income in children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015194994
We analyze the impact of World War II service on income and mobility among male Army and Army Airforce veterans from … Native American veterans earned slightly more. Income effects varied by type of income. Veterans also showed lower rates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015195028