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Impact of the West African Ebola Epidemic on Agricultural Production and Rural Welfare : Evidence from Liberia
de la Fuente, Alejandro - 2019
The 2014-15 Ebola epidemic took a devastating human and economic toll on three West African countries, of which Liberia was perhaps the hardest hit. The pathways through which the crisis affected economic activity in these largely agrarian societies remain poorly understood. To study these...
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Impact of Property Rights Reform to Support China?S Rural-Urban Integration : Village-Level Evidence from the Chengdu National Experiment
Deininger, Klaus - 2017
As part of a national experiment, in 2008 Chengdu prefecture implemented ambitious property rights reforms, including complete registration of all land together with measures to ease transferability and eliminate labor market restrictions. This study uses a discontinuity design with spatial...
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Impact of Property Rights Reform to Support China?S Rural-Urban Integration : Household-Level Evidence from the Chengdu National Experiment
Deininger, Klaus - 2017
implementation. Local labor supply increased, with the young shifting toward agriculture and the old toward off-farm employment …
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Village Political Economy, Land Tenure Insecurity, and the Rural to Urban Migration Decision : Evidence from China
Mu, Ren - 2017
integration and the movement of labor out of agriculture …
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A Dynamic Spatial Model of Rural-Urban Transformation with Public Goods
Biller, Dan - 2017
This paper develops a dynamic model that explains the pattern of population and production allocation in an economy with an urban location and a rural one. Agglomeration economies make urban dwellers benefit from a larger population living in the city and urban firms become more productive when...
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Poverty Reduction During the Rural-Urban Transformation : The Role of the Missing Middle
Christiaensen, Luc - 2017
As countries develop, they restructure away from agriculture and urbanize. But structural transformation and … urbanization patterns differ substantially, with some countries fostering migration out of agriculture into rural off farm … developing countries spanning 1980-2004, the analysis in this paper finds that migration out of agriculture into the missing …
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Urbanization and Poverty Reduction -- the Role of Rural Diversification and Secondary Towns
Christiaensen, Luc - 2017
/4-2010 shows that about one in two individuals/households who exited poverty did so by transitioning from agriculture into the …
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Closing Rural-Urban MDG Gaps in Low-Income Countries : A General Equilibrium Perspective
Lofgren, Hans - 2017
This paper addresses policies aimed at closing the rural-urban gap for one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the under-five mortality rate (U5MR). The paper relies on the Maquette for MDG Simulations (MAMS), a computable general equilibrium model, applied to the database of an...
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Converting Land into Affordable Housing Floor Space
Bertaud, Alain - 2017
Cities emerge from the spatial concentration of people and economic activities. But spatial concentration is not enough; the economic viability of cities depends on people, ideas, and goods to move rapidly across the urban area. This constant movement within dense cities creates wealth but also...
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Psychic vs. Economic Barriers to Vaccine Take-Up : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria
Sato, Ryoko - 2018
This paper experimentally evaluates the relative importance of psychic costs of tetanus vaccination compared to monetary costs among women in rural Nigeria. To measure psychic costs, vaccine take-up between two conditions to receive cash incentives is compared: clinic attendance vs. vaccine...
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