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In Cote d'Ivoire, as in much of Africa, husbands and wives farm different crops on separate plots. These different crops are differentially sensitive to particular kinds of rainfall shocks. We find that conditional on overall household expenditure, the composition of expenditure is sensitive to...
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The positive relationship between household income and child health is well documented in the child health literature but the precise mechanisms via which income generates better health and whether the income gradient is increasing in child age are not well understood. This paper presents new...
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Die Dissertation mit dem Titel “Battle and Beating, Water and Waste: Micro-Level Impact Evaluation in Developing and Emerging Economies” beinhaltet die Ergebnisse ökonometrischer Wirkungsevaluierungen, die innerhalb zwei verschiedener Themengebieten des täglichen Lebens in Entwicklungs-...
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explored in panel data for Ethiopia. Historical rainfall distributions are used to identify the counterfactual consumption risk …
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With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates … worldwide. This paper describes the nature ofunemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants …
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is whether such threshold points exist in Pakistan and Ethiopia and, if so, where they are located. Methodologically, the … poverty thresholds. Third, it adds the first study for a South Asian country and makes a comparison with Ethiopia … households in the sample. In Ethiopia, the equilibrium is barely above the very low mean. This, together with the slow speed of …
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pastoralists in southern Ethiopia to study stochastic wealth dynamics among a very poor population. These data yield several novel …
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This study focused on the interrelationships among producer, auction and world prices. In so doing, it criticized previous studies and extended technique developed by Hansen (1999) to handle inferential biases occurring as a result of specification errors. The following results were found:...
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This paper synthesizes the results of five studies using household panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico … ever poor and the proportion of time spent in poverty are also explored for Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Russia. All the case …
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the formation of credit networks. It uses original data, collected in Southern Ethiopia, an environment where nonlinear … data from southern Ethiopia it is shown that this method yieldsestimates of the structure of social relations that are …
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