This paper investigates how farmersf risk attitudes affected the adoption of agricultural technology in a rural area in Cambodia. We incorporated prospect theory to farmersf utility function and examined the effect of the risk attitude of farmers to the adoption of two technologies: adoption of...

Monopsony is often observed in local agricultural markets in developing countries because of the high entry cost to buyers; farmers in such markets therefore sell their agricultural products at a lower price. However, this situation seems to be changing with the diffusion of mobile phones. This...

In Albania, remittance has been an important factor for the countryfs economic growth since the collapse of the countryfs communist regime in the early 1990s. In this paper, I investigated why migrants send remittance to their parents household. In the analysis, I considered four remittance...

The termination of universal primary education (UPE) led to an immediate reduction in the length of female education by 1.3 years in Kenya. With this quasi-experimental change, our paper identifies the long-term impacts of education on total fertility and child quality investment. One additional...

The performance of locally hired contract teachers is one of the concerns for educational sector in developing countries where the supply of civil servant teachers is limited. In Republic of Kenya, 75% of public primary school employ at least one locally hired teachers. In past literature,...

In this paper, we test whether the parents’ years of education can affect their investment decision on early education of children. Similar discussions are found in the past literature, which empirically shows the intergenerational education link between parents and their children. While most...