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Effects of food price shocks on child malnutrition : the Mozambican experience 2008/09

Arndt, Channing; Hussain, M. Azhar; Østerdal, Lars Peter - 2012

A propitiously timed household survey carried out in Mozambique over the period 2008-09 permits us to evaluate the short-to-medium run relationship between sudden shocks to food prices and child nutrition status. We link local price inflation with child malnutrition status. We find that the...

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The determinants of occupational sorting : evidence from Mozambique

Ferreira, Ines A.; Jones, Sam; Mouco, Jorge; Santos, Ricardo - 2021

We examine the link between individual characteristics and sorting into different occupations using data from university students in Mozambique. We provide a comprehensive approach combining the main determinants of occupational sorting identified in the literature in a single framework to test...

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Character or context : what explains behavioural dishonesty in low-income countries?

Ferreira, Ines A.; Jones, Sam; Mouco, Jorge - 2020

We run a lab-in-the-field experiment with 1,060 university students in Mozambique to examine the correlates of behavioural dishonesty, distinguishing between intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Using an incentivized dice game, which yields direct estimates of the propensity to cheat, we find that...

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Aid and income : another time-series perspective

Lof, Matthijs; Mekasha, Tseday Jemaneh; Tarp, Finn - 2013

In a recent article, Nowak-Lehmann, Dreher, Herzer, Klasen, and Martínez-Zarzoso (2012) (henceforth NDHKM) conclude that foreign aid has not had a significant effect on income, based on evidence from panel data potentially covering 131 countries over the period 1960-2006. The present study...

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Understanding farmers' valuation of agricultural insurance : evidence from Viet Nam

King, Michael; Singh, Anuj Pratap - 2018

We employ a novel approach to investigate the reasons for a low demand for agricultural insurance. We confirm that … farmers systematically undervalue agricultural insurance. First, we find that private transfers, mainly from family members …, explain under-valuation of agricultural insurance. Second, membership of a farmer's union, interpreted as a form of social …

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Subjective poverty and reference-dependence : Income over time, aspirations and reference groups

Castilla, Carolina - 2010

How a person assesses the wellbeing derived from income is often determined as much by its contrast with a reference point as by the level of income itself. In this paper, I use a household survey from Mexico to examine how subjective poverty assessments not only depend on the absolute level of...

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Transfers and development : easy come, easy go?

Christiaensen, Luc J.; Lei Pan - 2010

Contrary to the popular notion that money that is easily earned, is also easily spent, economic theory holds that income is fungible. Drawing on the concept of mental accounting, this study theoretically explores when such a link between spending behaviour and the effort dispensed in obtaining...

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Long-term effects of land reform on human capital accumulation : evidence from West Bengal

Deininger, Klaus W.; Jin, Songqing; Yadav, Vandana - 2011

We use data on inter-generational gains in educational attainment by some 500,000 individuals in 200 West Bengal villages to explore gender-differentiated impacts of land reform on human capital accumulation at the individual level. While there are significant gains (of about 0.3 years for...

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Social capital, network effects and savings in rural Vietnam

Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn; Van den Broeck, Katleen - 2012

Information failures are a major barrier to formal financial saving in low income countries. Households in rural communities often lack the information necessary to set up formal deposit accounts or are uncertain about the returns to saving formally. In this paper, we explore the extent to which...

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Spillover effects of international standards : work conditions in Vietnamese small and medium enterprises

Trifković, Neda - 2015

more likely to offer formal contracts and to pay social and health insurance to workers. The estimation accounts for …

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