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Rural Livelihoods, Forest Access and Time Use: A Study of Forest Communities in Northwest India
Naidu, Sirisha C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of the size of private land holdings and access to forest commons on the labour allocation to livelihood activities. The statistical analysis indicates that land and forests are complementary assets in the rural production process. Differential access to...
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Coupling labor supply decisions : an experiment in India
Lowe, Matt; McKelway, Madeline - 2021
Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid bargaining. We study whether these barriers to joint decision-making keep female labor force participation low in India. In partnership with one of India’s largest carpet...
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Time allocation of daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law in India : the role of education as bargaining power
Bhattacharya, Leena - 2023
state of residence. Overall, the results suggest that policies that aim to increase women's education and promote gender …
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Coupling Labor Supply Decisions: An Experiment in India
Lowe, Matthew; McKelway, Madeline - 2021
Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid bargaining. We study whether these barriers to joint decision-making keep female labor force participation low in India. In partnership with one of India’s largest carpet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799746
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Gender Differentials in Time-Use in India : Sundays as a Counterfactual
Bhatta Mishra, Prasun - 2023
Use Survey of 2019 to examine how these gender differentials between working-age women and men within a household change … deteriorates further for women with a further deterioration in personal-care gap. The widening of gender differentials in salaried …. This rigidity is indicative of gender norms which makes women primarily responsible for domestic work even at the cost of …
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An egg for an egg and a bean for a bean? How production diversity determines dietary diversity of smallholder farmers in rural India
Ludwig, Till - 2018
On-farm production diversity of smallholder farmers can improve the nutrition security of the household. The objective is to determine the significance and relevance of this relationship by considering the different degrees of separability between both the commercial and consumptive production...
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Livelihood diversification and nutrition in the Indian rural-urban interface
Purushotham, Anjali; Steinhübel, Linda - 2024
With growing cities and improving infrastructure all over the world, smallholder farms not only gain better access to agricultural markets but also off-farm labor markets. As a result, the opportunity cost of farm labor increases, and households' livelihood portfolios often become more complex,...
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An Egg for an Egg and a Bean for a Bean? How Production Diversity Determines Dietary Diversity of Smallholder Farmers in Rural India
Ludwig, Till - 2018
On-farm production diversity of smallholder farmers can improve the nutrition security of the household. The objective is to determine the significance and relevance of this relationship by considering the different degrees of separability between both the commercial and consumptive production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930811
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An egg for an egg and a bean for a bean? : how production diversity determines dietary diversity of smallholder farmers in rural India
Ludwig, Till - 2018
On-farm production diversity of smallholder farmers can improve the nutrition security of the household. The objective is to determine the significance and relevance of this relationship by considering the different degrees of separability between both the commercial and consumptive production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011779168
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The welfare gain from eliminating coffee price volatility: the case of indian coffee producers
Mohan, Sushil; Gemech, Firdu; Reeves, Alan; Struthers, John - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 4, pp. 57-72
It is commonly felt that the liberalisation of commodity markets has increased the exposure of commodity producers to price volatility. Using a generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity framework, we make a distinction between the predictable and unpredictable components of...
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