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This paper studies the dynamics of the agricultural sector in Mozambique, focusing on the role of commercial farms. Using agricultural survey data from 2002 to 2012, we analyse the spatial distribution of large farms and identify factors influencing their location decisions. We find that the...
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This paper describes the gaps and limitations in the data available on urban populations for many low- and middle-income nations and how this limits the accuracy of international comparisons - for instance of levels of urbanization and of the size of city populations. It also discusses how the...
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in educational outcomes might be attributed to an uneven allocation of household resources towards the schooling of boys …
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This paper is intended to bridge the theoretical literature describing efficient intra-household behaviour and the … spouses. It examines the key elements of the collective model and discusses its relevance to analysing intra-household …
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This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The first-order dominance methodology was used to examine five dimensions of deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the...
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Diversification of household activities away from agriculture is a key characteristic of economic development. We … diversification is, on average, welfare enhancing and that the most beneficial form of diversification is into household enterprises …
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An experimental design using treatments of a voluntary contribution mechanism is used to test household efficiency …. Efficiency is decisively rejected in all treatments contrary to the assumption of most household models. Information on initial …. -- household efficiency ; intra-household models ; experimental games ; Ethiopia …
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investigates the impact of climate variability on household welfare in the area using a three-period panel data from the Ghana … impacts household welfare, agricultural income, and farm revenue, and recommends inter alia households' diversification of …
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The present study aims to explore economic and socio-demographic factors that influence the household's probability to … studied region. The research shows that income, firewood, and kerosene prices, age of household heads, their educational level …
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We assess the effect of female bargaining power on the share of educational expenditures in the household budget in … India. We augment the collective household model by endogenizing female bargaining power and use a three-stage least squares … approach to simultaneously estimate female bargaining power, per capita household expenditure and budget share of education …
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