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Assessing post-harvest labor shortages, wages, and welfare

Cassey, Andrew J.; Lee, Kwanyoung; Sage, Jeremy; Tozer, … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-24

For horticultural commodities, labor is necessary for post-harvest activities such as management, marketing, packing, and distribution. We create a model with pre- and post-harvest tasks and transportation network to study how a shortage in the pre-harvest labor market affects the post-harvest...

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Welfare and food security response of animal feed and water resource scarcity in Northern Ethiopia

Hadush, Muuz - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-24

The scarcity of grazing and water for an animal has a negative effect on household welfare and food security either by … impact on time leisure consumption. The economic impacts of resource (grazing and water) scarcity on welfare are undermined … explore the link between natural resource scarcity and per capita food consumption expenditure (PCFE) as proxy for welfare and …

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Estimating the effects of financial inclusion on welfare in sub-Saharan Africa

Ofori-Abebrese, Grace; Baidoo, Samuel Tawiah; Essiam, … - In: Cogent Business & Management 7 (2020) 1, pp. 1-15

achieving eight out of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) cannot be overemphasized as far as the welfare of individuals … is concerned. This study estimates the effects of financial inclusion on welfare using cross-section data from 33 sub … countries have low financial inclusion index. It is also revealed that financial inclusion has positive effect on welfare. With …

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Cost uncertainty in an oligopoly with endogenous entry

de Pinto, Marco; Goerke, Laszlo - In: Bulletin of Economic Research 74 (2021) 4, pp. 927-948

How does cost uncertainty affect the welfare consequences of an oligopoly? To answer this question, we investigate a … analytical setup. Furthermore, the welfare loss due to oligopoly tends to increase with uncertainty. …

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Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ): A panacea for productivity and welfare of rice farmers in Northern Ghana

Tanko, Mohammed; Ismaila, Salifu; Sadiq, Saeed Abu - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-14

) on rice farmers` productivity and welfare in Northern Ghana. The study used survey data collected from beneficiaries and … and welfare of rice farmers in Northern Ghana. The research recommends the need for government to expand the beneficiaries …

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Agricultural technologies adoption and smallholder farmers' welfare: Evidence from Northern Ghana

Adams, Abdulai; Jumpah, Emmanuel Tetteh - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-19

Improving the welfare of smallholder farmers through the introduction of improved technologies has gained increased … interventions that promote the use of improved technologies to advance the welfare of smallholder farmers. However, the impact of …, therefore, analysed the impact of technology adoption on smallholder farmers' welfare. We obtained data from 461 technology …

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A mediating effect of business growth on zakat empowerment program and mustahiq's welfare

Widiastuti, Tika; Auwalin, Ilmiawan; Rani, Lina Nugraha; … - In: Cogent Business & Management 8 (2021) 1, pp. 1-18

empowerment programs and mustahiq's (zakat recipient) welfare. This quantitative study employs Partial Least Square Structural …. Zakat empowerment positively affects mustahiq's welfare. This indicates that the empowerment program successfully increases … assistantship and mustahiq welfare also shows a positive and significant effect. Further, macroeconomic indicators consisting of …

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The effect of cooperatives credit to the welfare

Dwiputri, Inayati Nuraini; Prastiwi, Lustina Fajar; … - In: UTMS Journal of Economics 13 (2022) 2, pp. 276-284

study wants to identify the effect of savings and loan cooperatives in improving people's welfare and increasing the … effect in improving people's welfare. This research can be used as the basis for formulating community policies in an effort … to improve community welfare through cooperatives. …

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Mothers' labor supply and conditional cash transfers: Evidence from Chile

Dona, Gonzalo - In: Estudios de Economía 50 (2023) 1, pp. 159-191

Taking advantage of a reform that made Chile's most popular conditional cash transfer program substantially more generous, I study its impact on mothers' labor supply using a difference-in-difference strategy. Previous research has focused on these effects near the inauguration of CCTs, never...

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Fairness criteria for allocating scarce resources

Singh, Bismark - In: Optimization Letters 14 (2020) 6, pp. 1533-1541

We develop an optimization model to provide a fair allocation of multiple resources to multiple users. All resources might not be suitable to all users. We develop a notion of fairness, and then provide a general class of functions achieving it. Next, we develop more restricted notions of...

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