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Remittance Inflow and Smallholder Farming Practices : The Case of Moldova

Piras, Simone - 2017

In the Republic of Moldova, a large number of households that received land shares after the break-down of the collective farm structure currently focus on semi-subsistence agriculture. Often, one or more members of these households have migrated abroad. This paper aims at assessing the impact...

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Testing the Pareto Efficiency of Household Resource Allocations

Apps, Patricia F. - 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...

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The demand for gratitude as a restraint on the use of child labor : a hypothesis

Stark, Oded; Budziński, 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...

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Insecure Land Tenure, Social Protection, and Resource Misallocation : Evidence from China's Agricultural Sector

Ma, Meilin - 2020

Smallholder farmers usually face insecure land rights and limited social protection, so that farmland serves as an important safety net against income shocks. Safety-net value of farmland makes the loss of land rights extra costly and strengthens the well-documented incentive for...

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The demand for gratitude as a restraint on the use of child labor : a hypothesis

Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor - 2021

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Rural shadow wages and youth agricultural labor supply in Ethiopia : Evidence from Farm Panel Data

Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu; Gerber, Nicolas - In: Change at home, in the labor market, and on the job, (pp. 61-106). 2021

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Women's economic capacity and children's human capital accumulation

Hoop, Jacobus de; Premand, Patrick; Rosati, Furio Camillo; … - 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....

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Rural shadow wages and youth agricultural labor supply in Ethiopia : evidence from farm panel data

Gutu Sakketa, Tekalign; 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 …

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Why do parents their children work ? A test of peverty hypothesis in rural areas in Brukina Faso

Christelle, Dumas - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquee, INRA - 2004

This article aims at testing whether child labor is caused by poverty. Tests are designed for rural areas in a setting characterized by the absence of a labor market. A model of rural household labor supply is developed that provides testable implications of two different poverty hypotheses. We...

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Income Contributions of Child Work in Rural Ethiopia

Cockburn, John - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2002

The income contribution of child work is undoubtedly a key factor influencing child work and schooling decisions. Yet, few studies have attempted to directly measure this contribution. This is particularly the case for work performed on the household farm, as is the case for the vast majority of...

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