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Hazardous Agrochemicals, Smoking, and Farmers’ Differences in Wage-Risk Tradeoffs
Nastis, Stefanos A.; Michailidis, Anastasios - 2010
This paper utilizes the theory of compensating differentials for job risks from the laboreconomics literature to evaluate farmers’ differences in wage-risk tradeoffs. In thecontext of job risks, the theory predicts that farmers who place a lower value on healthstatus are willing to work for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442744
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Changes in Food, Alcohol and Cigarettes Consumption during Transition: Evidence from Russia
Herzfeld, Thomas; Huffman, Sonya Kostova; Oskam, Arie J.; … - 2009
This paper examines the changes in nutritional behavior of Russian adults over the ten-year transition period, between 1994 and 2004. We present evidence on the impact of individual as well as regional characteristics on changes in fat, protein, alcohol and cigarette consumption, and on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444757
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Essays on Health Economics
Wang, Yang - 2009
their smoking choices. I find that US elderly tend to over-emphasize the importance of their genetic makeup but … underestimate the influence of their health-related choices, such as smoking, on their longevity. This finding can partially explain … effects of their genes and health-related choices on their longevity, then the average smoking rate for the age group analyzed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475465
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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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Does having a newborn child affect income diversification opportunities?: evidence from the Peruvian Young Lives Study
Escobal, Javier; Suárez, Pablo; Huttly, Sharon; … - 2005
describes the income diversification patterns of Peruvian households with young children (aged between 6 and 18 months … communities who have no young children. The authors explore links between income diversification strategies, household assets, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441486
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444299
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From Needs to the Market: Changing Inequality of Household Income in the Czech Transition
Vecernik, Jiri - 2001
(numbers of active earners and children, age) to socio-economic factors (education, branch, occupation) are displayed. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476863
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Brand Inertia in U.S. Household Cheese Consumption.
Arnade, Carlos; Gopinath, Munisamy; Pick, Daniel - 2008
To analyze U.S. consumers' brand choices for cheese purchases, we derive a set of discrete-choice models from dynamic utility maximization. ACNielsen Homescan Survey data on U.S. households is used to estimate a dynamic probit model for each of the top brands for cheddar, shredded, and sliced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429467
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The income volatility see-saw : implications for school lunch.
Newman, Constance.; United States. - 2006
-income families. This study examines income volatility among households with children and the implications of volatility for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429474
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Off-farm labour and the structure of US agriculture: the case of corn/soybean farms.
Nehring, Richard; Banker, David - 2005
While the growing importance of off-farm earnings suggests large benefits accrue to farmers from efforts to expand off-farm income opportunities, economic well being also depends on greater efficiency. To comprehensively gauge the economic health of farm operator households' off-farm income is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429509