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Evolution of land distribution in West Bengal : 1967 - 2004 : role of land reform and demographic changes
Bardhan, Pranab K.; Luca, Michael; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - In: Journal of development economics 110 (2014), pp. 171-190
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011293072
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Who should diversify and move out of agriculture? : income portfolios and household welfare in rural Uganda
Kakungulu, Moses; Akoyi, Kevin Teopista; Hoyweghen, Kaat van - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057050
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Intra-household resource allocation and familial ties
Kazianga, Harounan; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2016
In this paper, we investigate the link between intra-household resource allocation and familial ties between household members. We show that, within the same geographic, economic and social environments, households where members have "stronger" familial ties (e.g. a nuclear family household)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439836
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Impacts of Land Certification on Tenure Security : Investment, and Land Market Participation : Evidence from Ethiopia
Deininger, Klaus; Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Alemu, Tekie - 2011
While early attempts at land titling in Africa were often unsuccessful, factors such as new legislation, low-cost methods, and increasing demand for land have generated renewed interest. A four-period panel allows use of a pipeline and difference-indifferences approach to assess impacts of land...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012562487
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Evolution of land distribution in West Bengal 1967-2004 : role of land reform
Bardhan, Pranab K.; Lucab, Michael; Mookherjeeb, Dilip; … - 2011
per capita, while within-village inequality rose. The latter was associated mainly with rising landlessness induced by … households reduced inequality. We find a significant indirect effect of the tenancy reform (Operation Barga) on inequality, as it … (patta) program also reduced inequality by reducing landlessness. Land markets were highly active, and were mildly equalizing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127884
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Intra-household resource allocation and familial ties
Kazianga, Harounan; Wahhaj, Zaki - In: Journal of development economics 127 (2017), pp. 109-132
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785515
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Measuring income in household panel surveys for Germany : a comparison of EU-SILC and SOEP
Frick, Joachim R.; Krell, Kristina - 2010
Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824473
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The welfare impact of rising food prices : the walfare impact of rising food prices differs for net food consumers and net producers
Dimova, Ralitza - 2015
Dramatic food price spikes in recent years have stimulated debate on the welfare implications of food price risk. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the number of undernourished people in sub-Saharan Africa rose to a record 265 million in 2009. There is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430549
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Declining nutient intake in a growing China : does household heterogeneity matter?
You, Jing; Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav - 2015 - Rev. ed.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326190
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Matching household surveys with DHS data to create nationally representative time series of poverty : an application to Bolivia
Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009 - This version: December 19, 2009
Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258036