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Wage Growth, Landholding, and Mechanization in Chinese Agriculture
Wang, Xiaobing - 2017
This paper uses farm panel data from China to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine investments, and the demand for machine services. Recently, China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion of machine rentals and machine services provided by specialized agents, which has...
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Agricultural Productivity, Hired Labor, Wages and Poverty : Evidence from Bangladesh
Emran, Shahe - 2017
This paper provides evidence on the effects of agricultural productivity on wage rates, labor supply to market oriented activities, and labor allocation between own farming and wage labor in agriculture. To guide the empirical work, this paper develops a general equilibrium model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972656
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Wage Growth, Landholding, and Mechanization in Agriculture : Evidence from Indonesia
Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2017
This paper uses farm panel data from Indonesia to examine dynamic patterns of land use, capital investments, and wages in agriculture. The empirical analysis shows that an increase in real wages has induced the substitution of labor by machines among relatively large farmers. Large farmers tend...
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Gender and Asset Ownership : A Guide to Collecting Individual-Level Data
Doss, Cheryl R. - 2017
examples of three Living Standard Measurement Study surveys: the 1998-99 Ghana survey, the 2000 Guatemala survey, and the 1997 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746762
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Quality of Schooling and Quality of Schools for Indigenous Students in Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru
Hernandez-Zavala, Martha - 2016
score data for 3rd and 4th year primary school pupils in Guatemala and Peru, and 5th grade pupils in Mexico, the authors …
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Human Capital Outflows : Selection into Migration from the Northern Triangle
Del Carmen Hasbun, Giselle Eugenia - 2018
This study quantifies the outflow of human capital associated with migration from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras …, and 1.0 percent in Guatemala …
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Gone with the Storm : Rainfall Shocks and Household Well-Being in Guatemala
Baez, Javier Eduardo - 2017
strike Guatemala since rainfall records have been kept -- on household welfare. The analysis reveals substantial negative … partly explain the increase in poverty seen in urban Guatemala between 2006 and 2011, which national authorities and analysts …
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Can Subjective Questions on Economic Welfare Be Trusted? Evidence for Three Developing Countries
Ravallion, Martin - 2017
specially-designed surveys in three countries, Tajikistan, Guatemala, and Tanzania, to study scale heterogeneity. Respondents …
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Who Uses Bottled Gas? Evidence from Households in Developing Countries
Kojima, Masami - 2017
Household surveys in Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka were analyzed using a two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975879
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Estimating Poverty Using Cell Phone Data : Evidence from Guatemala
Hernandez, Marco - 2017
the south west region of Guatemala, which used mobile phone data to predict observed poverty rates. Its findings indicate … predicting urban and total poverty in Guatemala more accurately than rural poverty. Moreover, although the poverty estimates … comprehensive data could greatly enhance their predictive power. CDR analysis has especially promising applications in Guatemala and …
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