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Diet Diversification and Diet Quality in India: An Analysis

Gaiha, Raghav; Kaicker, Nidhi; Imai, Katsushi S.; … - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2012

consumption of fruits, vegetables, oils and livestock products. Using household data, a food diversity index (FDI) is constructed …

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Gravity Model Applications and Macroeconomic Perspectives

Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …

This dissertation was prepared by Jasmin Gröschl and is a collection of five self-contained empirical essays. They aim at contributing to the understanding of non-standard determinants of trade and migration: historical and cultural characteristics in the United States (Chapter 1),...

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Natural Disasters and the Effect of Trade on Income: A New Panel IV Approach

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Gröschl, Jasmin - CESifo - 2011

Does trade openness cause higher GDP per capita? Since the seminal instrumental variables (IV) estimates of Frankel and Romer [F&R](1999) important doubts have surfaced. Is the correlation spurious and driven by omitted geographical and institutional variables? In this paper, we generalize...

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Natural disasters and the effect of trade on income: A new panel IV approach

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Gröschl, Jasmin - In: European Economic Review 58 (2013) C, pp. 18-30

Natural disasters affect bilateral trade. We use this fact to generalize the instrumental variables strategy of Frankel and Romer (1999) to a panel setup. This allows revisiting an old question: Does openness cause per capita GDP? We work with a modified gravity framework in which we interact...

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Does Women's Empowerment Reduce Prevalence of Stunted and Underweight Children in Rural India?

Imai, Katsushi; Annim, Samuel Kobina; Kulkarni, Veena S.; … - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2013

children's nutritional status using the three rounds of NFHS data in India. First, the relative educational attainment of …

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Does Women's Empowerment Reduce Prevalence of Stunted and Underweight Children in Rural India?

Imai, Katsushi S.; Annim, Samuel Kobina; Gaiha, Raghav; … - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2012

This study investigates whether mother's empowerment as measured by mother's relative (to father) bargaining power affects children's nutritional status using the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) and National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) data spanning the period between 1992...

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The Contribution of Non-Physical Resources and Strategic Household Decision-making to Environmental and Policy Risks

Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

Physical resources such as land, labour and livestock, and nonphysical resources such as indigenous knowledge and institutions of producers in the grain surplus and deficit regions of the Central Highlands of Ethiopia are examined under situation of environmental and policy risks. Frequency...

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Got green milk? A field experimental trial of consumer demand for a climate label

Matsdotter, Elina; Elofsson, Katarina; Arntyr, Johan - Institutionen för ekonomi, Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet - 2014

A majority of consumers claim to prefer climate-labelled food over non-labelled alternatives. However, there is limited empirical evidence that such labels actually influence consumer behaviour when shopping. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether qualitative information about a...

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Planning and costing of agricultural adaptation with reference to integrated hill farming systems in Nepal.

Paudel, Bikash; Tamang, B B; Lamsal, Krishna; Paudel, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

1. Despite an existing information gap in scientific evidence regarding the effects of future changes in climate patterns and options for the future, the community-based adaptation process should nevertheless be initiated. This requires community involvement through participatory planning in...

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CDM Potential of Dairy Sector in India

Michaelowa, Axel; Sirohi, Smita - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

potential international markets for greenhouse gases offsets through the CDM and facilitate implementation of CDM in India, a … livestock sector, in particular has not been included in the ambit of NSS, although in India total emissions of methane from … in the dairy sector in India, estimates the cost of various methane mitigation strategies in the sector and highlights …

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