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Aridification, agriculture, and infant health : evidence from soil potential evapotranspiration
Lunghi, Jacopo; Malpede, Maurizio; Percoco, Marco - 2022
This study explores how aridity (proxied with a measure of soil potential evapotranspiration) impacts agricultural productivity and child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate conditions, crop yield, and infant health measures are collected over approximately 4,000 grid cells of 0.5 x 0.5 in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822125
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Seasonal migration and feminization of farm management : evidence from India
Chandrasekhar, S.; Sahoo, Soham; Swaminathan, Hema - 2017
This paper explores the association between short-term migration in the household and feminization of farm management …-term migrant in the household. We model the labor outcomes of women as reflected by their participation as major decision …-makers (main operator) or minor decision makers (associated operator) on the household operational holding. Overall, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011655697
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The impact of remittance income on rural households in China
Snyder, Steve; Chern, Wen S. - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 1, pp. 38-57
Purpose – The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of remittance income on rural households in China. Design/methodology/approach – Using data from a large survey of farming households in three Chinese provinces, the impacts of remittances and other types of income on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366455
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The U.S. Demographic Transition
Greenwood, Jeremy; Seshadri, Ananth - 2007
given here is that technological progress in agriculture and manufacturing explains these facts. This paper is published in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014120959
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Of Maize and Men : The Effect of a New World Crop on Population and Economic Growth in China
Chen, Shuo; Kung, James Kai-Sing - 2014
By applying a difference-in-differences (DID) analysis to the adoption of maize in China from around the mid-18th century onwards, we find that, like the potato in the Old World, maize accounted for 18% of the population increase in China during 1776-1910. Unlike the potato, however, this crop...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014040535
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The U.S. Demographic Transition
Greenwood, Jeremy; Seshadri, Ananth - 2002
given here is that technological progress in agriculture and manufacturing explains these facts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014120579
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Aridification, Agriculture, and Infant Health : Evidence from Soil Potential Evapotranspiration
Lunghi, Jacopo; Malpede, Maurizio; Percoco, Marco - 2022
This study explores how aridity (proxied with a measure of soil potential evapotranspiration) impacts agricultural productivity and child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate conditions, crop yield, and infant health measures are collected over approximately 4,000 grid cells of 0.5 x 0.5 in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013294847
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Aridification, Agriculture, and Infant Health : Evidence from Soil Potential Evapotranspiration
Lunghi, Jacopo; Malpede, Maurizio; Percoco, Marco - 2022
This study explores how aridity (proxied with a measure of soil potential evapotranspiration) impacts agricultural productivity and child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate conditions, crop yield, and infant health measures are collected over approximately 4,000 grid cells of 0.5 x 0.5 in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013294911
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Vulnerability to poverty : theory, measurement and determinants, with case studies from Thailand and Vietnam
Klasen, Stephan (ed.) - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009671645
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Floods in Southeast Asia : a household welfare priority
Le Thi Ngoc Tu - 2019
The dissertation focuses on floods in Vietnam and Thailand using a long-time measurement of household welfare, combined …Die Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit Überflutungen in Vietnam und Thailand und nutzt dabei Langzeit-Messungen von … varying flooding intensities on an array of household welfare outcomes in a panel regression setup. The range of the effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062128