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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
increasing income-generating opportunities for Peruvian women with a newborn child. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441486
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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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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353250
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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 … costs of the transition process were not distributed equally but women had to bear a higher burden. This study aims at … assessing gender equality in transition countries 15 years after transition in three areas that are important for women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449678
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RISK AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN AGRICULTURE: HOW INCOME SHOCKS INFLUENCE FARM SIZE
Roberts, Michael J.; Key, Nigel D. - 2002
Farm-level Census data and county-level income shock data reveal that past unexpected income shocks affect the rate of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442878
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Measurement error in imputation procedures
Campos, Rodolfo G.; Reggio, Iliana - 2013
En este trabajo se estudia cómo los estimadores que se utilizan para imputar consumo en datos provenientes de encuestas son inconsistentes a causa de error de medida en la variable de consumo. Estudios anteriores sugieren instrumentar consumo para superar este problema. El presente estudio...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530432
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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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From Needs to the Market: Changing Inequality of Household Income in the Czech Transition
Vecernik, Jiri - 2001
Statistical income surveys are used to document systemic changes in distribution and redistribution of household income and its determinants over the period 1988-1996. First, the growing difficulties facing income surveys under the democratic regime are considered. Secondly, the substantive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476863