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Does having a newborn child affect income diversification opportunities?: evidence from the Peruvian Young Lives Study
Escobal, Javier; Suárez, Pablo; Huttly, Sharon; … - 2005
The ability of households to diversify their income sources is strongly related to their capacity to cope in times of pressure, such as during economic crises. This is particularly so among the poor, who often do not have adequate resources on which to draw when under such pressures. Households...
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Time to burn: Modeling wildland arson as an autoregressive crime function.
Prestemon, J.P.; Butry, D.T. - 2005
and poverty on arson, in ways expected from theory. All findings support an economic model of crime. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429523
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Gender Equality in Central and Eastern Europe : A Comparison of Labour Market Attitudes, Educational Achievement and Poverty between East and West
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2005
tremendous increase in poverty and income inequality in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Much of the literature argues that the …’s economic empowerment: the labour market, education and poverty. Large and complex data sets on peoples’ attitudes and … greater in transition than in OECD countries.On the other hand, once the feminisation of poverty is concerned data on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449678
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Measuring the Burden of Disease, the Structure of Income, and Returns to Education in Rural West Africa
Würthwein, Ralph - 2002
Die vorliegende Dissertation will einen Beitrag zur Messung von Krankheitsbelastung, Einkommensstruktur und … einer Studie zur Messung der Krankheitsbelastung wieder. Die Studie verwendet Mortalitätsdaten, die das CRSN zwischen 1997 … und 1999 erhoben hat. Kapitel 5 beschäftigt sich mit methodologischen Fragestellungen der Messung der Krankheitsbelastung …
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A "ruggedised" method for measuring entrepreneurial activity in developing countries
Frederick, Howard - 2010
In July 2009, a team of 38 researchers carried out the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey in the Kingdom of Tonga. The GEM survey estimates the proportion of the general population involved in business start-ups and new firm creation. This paper describes not the results of the survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483783
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Measuring entrepreneurial activity in low-teledensity countries
Frederick, Howard; Haslett, Stephen; Wolfgramm, Tania; … - 2011
In 2009, a team of 38 researchers carried out the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey of social and business entrepreneurial activity in the Kingdom of Tonga. The GEM survey estimates the proportion of the population involved in business and social start-ups and new firm creation. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484122
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Micro evidence of the brain gain hypothesis : the case of Cape Verde
Batista, Catia; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vicente, Pedro
Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this specific question for the case of Cape Verde. This is allegedly the African country suffering from the largest "brain drain",...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530246
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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria
Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987
Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438517
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Interlinked Transactions in Cash Cropping Economies: The Determinants of Farmer Participation and Performance in the Zambezi River Valley of Mozambique
Benfica, Rui M.S.; Tschirley, David L.; Boughton, Duncan - 2006
This paper investigates the determinants of participation and performance of tobacco contract farmers, and the effects of participation on overall crop and household incomes in the Zambezi Valley of Mozambique. We test the existence of threshold effects in land holdings and educational...
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