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We report on a randomized field experiment using price incentives to address both economic and gender inequality in … of pro-poor price discrimination is justified even from a narrow budgetary perspective.  In terms of gender inequality …, we find that even small price incentives for female co-titling achieve almost complete gender parity in land ownership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159043
We report on a randomized field experiment using price incentives to address both economic and gender inequality in … pro-poor price discrimination is justified even from a narrow budgetary perspective. In terms of gender inequality, we … find that even small price incentives for female co-titling achieve almost complete gender parity in land ownership with no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783617
We report on a randomized field experiment using price incentives to address both economic and gender inequality in … pro-poor price discrimination is justified even from a narrow budgetary perspective. In terms of gender inequality, we … find that even small price incentives for female co-titling achieve almost complete gender parity in land ownership with no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783884
We report on a randomized field experiment using price incentives to address both economic and gender inequality in … pro-poor price discrimination is justified even from a narrow budgetary perspective. In terms of gender inequality, we … find that even small price incentives for female co-titling achieve almost complete gender parity in land ownership with no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014144458
This paper gives a selected review of some of the work on poverty mobility, largely based on recent research. The … allow movement out of poverty. For urban areas, location and access to particular types of jobs appears to matter. The paper … revisits this evidence. However, in analyzing poverty mobility, it is not self-evident to move from describing the correlates …
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We use a principal–agent framework and data from the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey between 1994 and 2004 to understand biases in the distribution of food aid in Ethiopia. We show that even when aid is systematically misallocated, aid recipients may match official classifications of needy...
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Standard poverty analysis makes statements about deprivation after the veil of uncertainty has been lifted. This … paper, we introduce a concept of vulnerability, as a threat of poverty, with downside risk at its core. More specifically …, we define a vulnerability measure as an assessment of the magnitude of the threat of poverty, measured ex-ante, before …
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How do aspirations influence investment decisions for people living in poverty? Does this change as peoples economic … similar effects to cash alone, potentially because cash raises aspirations. Thus, helping people living in poverty set higher …
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This paper examines growth, poverty and chronic poverty in 15 Ethiopian villages between 1994 and 2004. Growth and … poverty reduction in these communities was substantial; headcount poverty fell from 48 to 35 percent. However, there is also … movement in and out of poverty over this period and a significant proportion of the sample was chronically poor. Chronic …
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Much has been written on the determinants of input and technology adoption in agriculture, with issues such as input availability, knowledge and education, risk preferences, profitability, and credit constraints receiving much attention. This paper focuses on a factor that has been less well...
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