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Coping strategies in post-war rural Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - 2003
This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub-Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data estimates the determinants of agricultural coping...
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Coping strategies in post-war rural Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013436470
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Women's Economic Capacity and Children's Human Capital Accumulation
de Hoop, Jacobus; Premand, Patrick; Rosati, Furio C.; … - 2017
Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in school and work that are theoretically undetermined. We present a simple model to describe the possible channels through which these programs may affect children's activities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653229
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Rural shadow wages and youth agricultural labor supply in Ethiopia: Evidence from farm panel data
Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu; Gerber, Nicolas - 2017
gender- and age-specific values of agricultural labor return (shadow wages), we systematically analyse trends, patterns and … results indicate that trends and patterns of the youth's involvement in agriculture vary across gender and farm work locations … gender, whilst their participation in off-farm activities is increasing. The findings also suggest that changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869289
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Testing the Pareto efficiency of household resource allocations
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2008
In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264378
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The Demand for Gratitude as a Restraint on the Use of Child Labor: A Hypothesis
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2022
We study a parent's demand for gratitude from his child. We view this demand as an intervening variable between the parent's earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive care and support from his child late in life, while the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882626
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The demand for gratitude as a restraint on the use of child labor: A hypothesis
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2021
We study a parent's demand for gratitude from his child. We view this demand as an intervening variable between the parent's earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive care and support from his child late in life, while the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888660
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The demand for gratitude as a restraint on the use of child labor: A hypothesis
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2022
We study a parent's demand for gratitude from his child. We view this demand as an intervening variable between the parent's earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive care and support from his child late in life, while the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803568
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Rural Shadow Wages and Youth Agricultural Labor Supply in Ethiopia : Evidence from Farm Panel Data
Sakketa, Takalign - 2017
gender- and age-specific values of agricultural labor return (shadow wages), we systematically analyse trends, patterns and … results indicate that trends and patterns of the youth's involvement in agriculture vary across gender and farm work locations … gender, whilst their participation in off-farm activities is increasing. The findings also suggest that changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958156
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Agricultural Plots, Labor Allocation, and Income Hiding in Ethiopia
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2019
Past research has found that pressures to share income with family members and relatives can incentivize individuals to hide income, possibly distorting labor allocation and leading to inefficiencies. Due to the difficulty of observing hidden income, the majority of this research has used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898418