Similar Search Results

Poverty and Social Structure in Russia : An Analysis of the First Decade of Transition

Cerami, Alfio - 2019

This paper has four main objectives: (1) to monitor the rise of poverty and income inequality during the first decade of Russian transition; (2 to analyze the performance of the welfare state in reducing poverty and income inequality; (3) to identify the most vulnerable groups of transition; and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746435

Is poverty in the African DNA (gene)?

Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2015

A 2015 World Bank report on attainment of Millennium Development Goals concludes that the number of extremely poor has dropped substantially in all regions with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa. We assess if poverty is in the African gene by revisiting the findings of Ashraf and Galor (2013,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408502

Putting Prices on the Plate : The Industrial Revolution and its Impact on Traditional Cuisine in Three European Regions

Holte, Jens - 2013

Food traditions have been surveyed by many social scientists, but rarely from a purely economic viewpoint. This paper aims at introducing the economic logic of relative scarcities to the food table in order to explain the emergence and resilience of regional food traditions. The argument is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084068

Is Poverty in the African DNA (Gene)?

Asongu, Simplice - 2017

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971855

Fertility in Developing Countries

Schultz, T. Paul - 2007

The associations between fertility and outcomes in the family and society have been treated as causal, but this is inaccurate if fertility is a choice coordinated by families with other life-cycle decisions, including labour supply of mothers and children, child human capital, and savings....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050759

Women's Liberation : What's in it for Men?

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - 2021

The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324828

Essays in empirical development and education economics

Lange, Simon - 2015

This dissertation includes three empirical essays on development economics and one on the economics of education. The first essay (co-authored by Stephan Klasen) is a contribution to the debate surrounding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the on-going debate about what international...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349599

Livestock asset dynamics among pastoralists in Northern Kenya

Mburu, Samuel Kahumu; Kaiser, Micha; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2017

the livestock asset dynamics using both non-parametric and semi-parametric techniques to establish the shape of the asset … accumulation path and to determine whether multiple equilibria exist. More specifically, using tropical livestock units as a … measure of livestock accumulation over time, we show not only that these assets converge to a single equilibrium but that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729157

Socioeconomic burden of trypanosomiasis : evidence from crop and livestock production in Ethiopia

Abro, Zewdu; Fetene, Gebeyehu Manie; Kassie, Menale; … - In: Journal of agricultural economics : JAE 74 (2023) 3, pp. 785-799

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014342580

Livestock asset dynamics amongst pastoralists in Northern Kenya

Mburu, Samuel Kahumu; Kaiser, Micha; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - In: Journal of African economies 32 (2023) 5, pp. 572-597

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014427357

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last