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How Much of the Labor in African Agriculture is Provided by Women?
Palacios-Lopez, Amparo - 2020
The contribution of women to labor in African agriculture is regularly quoted in the range of 60 to 80 percent. Using … higher in households where women own a larger share of the land and when they are more educated. Controlling for the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012856192
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Transition to Clean Capital, Irreversible Investment and Stranded Assets
Rozenberg, Julie - 2017
This paper uses a Ramsey model with two types of capital to analyze the optimal transition to clean capital when polluting investment is irreversible. The cost of climate mitigation decomposes as a technical cost of using clean instead of polluting capital and a transition cost from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973263
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"They are Not Like Us" : Understanding Social Exclusion
Lakhani, Sadaf - 2017
Negative attitudes toward groups in society are widespread and underpin systematic processes of social exclusion that marginalize people and deny them opportunities and dignity. This paper looks at the processes underlying social exclusion. It uses data covering Eastern Europe and Central Asia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973484
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The Correlation between Human Capital and Morality and its Effect on Economic Performance : Theory and Evidence
Balan, David J. - 2017
This paper incorporates morality -- defined as lower utility from consuming goods obtained through appropriative rather than productive activities -- into a simple static general equilibrium model in which agents choose whether to be producers or appropriators. The authors analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975907
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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2017
beliefs precedence over other aspects of belief systems. Historical work finds that doctrines of race came into their own in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976669
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School Dropout in Central America : An Overview of Trends, Causes, Consequences, and Promising Interventions
Adelman, Melissa A. - 2017
School dropout is a growing concern in Central America, and in Latin America as a whole, because of its consequences for economic productivity, the inclusiveness of growth, social cohesion, and increasing youth risks. This paper utilizes more than two decades of household survey data to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970067
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The Transformative Effects of Privatization in China : A Natural Experiment Based on Politician Career Concern
Huang, Zhangkai - 2020
The serious implications of privatizing state-owned enterprises for politicians, managers, and investors make such decisions highly contingent on firm characteristics and past performance, complicating the identification of the privatization effects. A unique opportunity for this identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832607
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Psychic vs. Economic Barriers to Vaccine Take-Up : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria
Sato, Ryoko - 2018
monetary costs among women in rural Nigeria. To measure psychic costs, vaccine take-up between two conditions to receive cash …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927005
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"She Helps Me All the Time" : Underestimating Women's Economic Engagement in Rural Honduras
Muller, Miriam - 2020
This study aims to understand women's engagement in economic activities in rural Honduras and why these activities may … not be accurately reflected in official statistics. The study finds that women underreport their engagement in economic … percentage points. Two main explanations are found. First, women identify themselves (and are identified) primarily as housewives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836218
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Fear is What Weighs Most : Experiences of Women in Situations of Violence in Accessing Support Services in Brazil
Machado, Ana Luiza - 2020
This paper seeks to fill a knowledge gap relative to the low uptake of services for women living in situations of … protect women from domestic violence. Through qualitative research, this paper explores the experience of women survivors of … violence against women (VAW) in seeking help to exit abusive relationships, with the aim of identifying avenues to strengthen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839378