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This paper studies whether increasing the wife's bargaining power results in couples allocating more resources to their child, and, if so, what the underlying mechanisms for this are. We conduct a novel between-subject lab experiment in Tanzania, in which we vary the relative bargaining power...
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examine the extent of diversification among Vietnamese households, from agriculture into waged employment and entrepreneurship …
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,181 households, we examine how the welfare of women living in rural areas has evolved during a period of dramatic rural … transformation, 2008 - 14. We find that while the economic situation of women has improved, significant gender disparities remain …, particularly for female-headed households. Women continue to bear a greater burden of responsibility for income …
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entrepreneurship. Data on Uganda show that women breaking into male-dominated sectors make as much as men, and three times more than … women staying in female-dominated sectors. Factors including entrepreneurial skill/abilities and credit/human capital … constraints do not explain women's sectoral choices. However, information about profitability, male role models' influence, and …
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effect of the conflict on entrepreneurship is very small. The results on the control variables suggest that (i) the … generation of entrepreneurship has seen conflict and instability for a whole life,( ii) a small business is a mean of surviving …
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that even when entrepreneurship is valued, entrepreneurs may often not match their ideas with suitable opportunities …We provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities … approach (CA). Hence we extend not only the conceptualisation of entrepreneurship in development, but the reach of the CA into …
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Social capital and political connections can play an important role in developing countries where markets fail and institutions are weak. This paper explores their role in household micro-enterprise operation and success in the rural low-income setting of Vietnam. We propose that social capital...
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women's trajectory of economic success. …
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If we understand well the individualization of land tenure rules under conditions of growing land scarcity and increased market integration, much less is known about the mode of evolution of the farm-cum-family units possessing the land. Inspired by first-hand evidence from West Africa, this...
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This paper aims towards better understanding the role of entrepreneurship in fragile states, which despite the … formulation with appropriate and relevant measurement of entrepreneurship and the business environment, the primary focus in this … entrepreneurship in fragile state. …
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