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"She helps me all the time" : underestimating women's economic engagement in rural Honduras
Muller, Miriam; Sousa, Liliana D. - 2020
This study aims to understand women's engagement in economic activities in rural Honduras and why these activities may not be accurately reflected in official statistics. The study finds that women underreport their engagement in economic activities, including production for own consumption,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240558
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A structural model of the labor market to understand gender gaps among marginalized Roma communities
Salazar-Saenz, Mauricio; Robayo-Abril, Monica - 2020
This paper constructs and estimates a household-level search model to analyze Roma spouses' utility maximization for leisure, home production, and work. The paper aims to explain labor market gender gaps in a marginalized Roma population with low labor market participation rates (males 53...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296858
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Fertility and parental labor-force participation : new evidence from a developing country in the Balkans
Trako, Iva - 2019
This paper examines the effect of fertility on parental labor force participation in a developing country in the Balkans, with particular attention to the intervening role of childcare provided by grandparents in extended families. To address the potential endogeneity in the fertility decision,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059052
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Complex decisions between care and paid work : a qualitative study on the demand for childcare services in Mexico City
Muller, Miriam; Jaen, Martha - 2020
This study aims to improve the understanding of the barriers and enabling factors determining the demand for childcare in Mexico City. The study is based on focus group discussions and individual in-depth interviews with mothers and fathers (married or living in a union) of children ages zero to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390588
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Lives and livelihoods : estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
Decerf, Benoit; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Mahler, … - 2020
This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … distributional characteristics. Using years of life as a welfare metric yields a single parameter that captures the underlying trade …-off between lives and livelihoods: how many PYs have the same welfare cost as one LY. Taking an agnostic view of this parameter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241367
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Toward successful development policies : insights from research in development economics
Artuc, Erhan; Cull, Robert J.; Dasgupta, Susmita; Jaef, … - 2020
What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...
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Iraq's universal public distribution system : utilization and impacts during displacement
Phadera, Lokendra; Sharma, Dhiraj; Wai-Poi, Matthew - 2020
are effective in mitigating the loss of welfare induced by forced displacement. This paper examines whether Iraq's Public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229133
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Returns to low-skilled international migration : evidence from the Bangladesh-Malaysia migration lottery program
Mobarak, Mushfiq; Sharif, Iffath A.; Shrestha, Maheshwor - 2020
Many economists believe that the returns to migration are high. However, credible experimental estimates of the benefits of migration are rare, particularly for low-skilled international migrants and their families. This paper studies a natural experiment in Bangladesh, where low-skilled male...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229771
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An optimal rice policy for Sierra Leone : balancing consumer and producer welfare
Graham, Errol George; Tchale, Hardwick; Ndione, Mamadou - 2020
, simulations suggest that an optimal policy path to balance consumer and producer welfare and meet the higher societal objective of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297240
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Impact of the West African Ebola epidemic on agricultural production and rural welfare : evidence from Liberia
De La Fuente, Alejandro; Jacoby, Hanan; Lawin, … - 2019
mobilization for planting and harvest, thereby reducing rice area planted as well as rice yields. Household welfare, measured by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051875