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Access to Water, Time Allocation and Income in Rural India
Binswanger-Mkhize, Hans P - 2014
In this paper we show that investments to improve the supply and management of water reduce the time spent in fetching water by both men and women, which in turn will lead to a reallocation of the time saved to productive activities, and result in increased incomes. Using the national ARIS/REDS...
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Towards a national indicator for urban green space provision and environmental inequalities in Germany : method and findings
Wüstemann, Henry; Kalisch, Dennis - 2016
Socio- Economic Panel (GSOEP) and census population data with geo-coded data on land use from the European Urban Atlas (EUA …
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Collective Property Leads to Household Investments : Lessons from Land Titling in Afro-Colombian Communities
Peña, Ximena - 2016
In the developing world, collective land titling has become an important tool for recognizing the historical presence … estimate the impact of collective land titling in territories inhabited by Afro-descendent communities in Colombia. Using an … among children in primary education, and a decrease in housing overcrowding. Our results suggest that collective land …
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Female land rights and rural household incomes in Brazil, Paraguay and Peru
Deere, Carmen Diana; Durán, Rosa Luz; Mardon, Merrilee; … - 2004
This paper explores the determinants of female land rights and their impact on household income levels among owner …. We hypothesize that female land rights, by increasing women's options, are a positive determinant of household income …, but given the disadvantages that they face as farmers, that their land rights will more likely impact upon off-farm rather …
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The Impacts of Climatic and Non-Climatic Factors on Household Food Security : Study on Malaysian East Coast Poor
Alam, Md. Mahmudul - 2017
Sustainable food security at household level is a national concern in many countries. The reasons for household food insecurity include social, economic, political, and personal factors as well as climatic changes and its outcomes. This research aims at finding out the linkage of the factors of...
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Fiscal autonomy and self-setermination
Loumeau, Gabriel; Stettler, Christian - 2021
This paper studies the equilibrium effects of local fiscal autonomy accounting for benefits from self-determination. It proposes a quantifiable structural equilibrium framework in which imperfectly mobile heterogeneous households sort themselves across jurisdictions under endogenous public good...
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Payment choice, image motivation and contributions to charity
Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Final version: 04 August, 2010
This paper examines the impact of payment choice on charitablegiving with a door-to-door fund-raising field experiment. Respondentscan donate cash only, use debit only, or have both options. Cash donations have lower visibility vis-a-vis solicitors than debit card donations. When debit replaces...
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Households, markets and public choice
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2014 - This Version: August 2014
We develop a model that combines competitive exchange of private commodities across endogenously formed groups with public good provision and global collective decisions. There is a tension between local and global collective decisions. In particular, we show that group formation and collective...
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Poverty and the Economic Transition : How Do Changes in Economies of Scale Affect Poverty Rates for Different Households?
Lanjouw, Peter F.; Milanovic, Branko; Paternostro, Stefano - 2004
Has the economic transition in Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union been harder on pensioner households or on households containing children? Do per capita measures of welfare give a misleading picture? Much attention has been paid to the relative vulnerability of two...
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Experiential Household Food Insecurity in an Urban Underserved Slum of North India
Agarwal, Siddharth - 2016
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