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communities in the fields of agriculture, herding and agroforestry. …
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a spatial lag model, our analysis provides evidence for the presence of strategic interactions in Benin, contingent on …
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1. The Resocot Projet is a research project which brought together teams of researchers from the North and Africa, not all of which were familiar with the theoretical approach used at the outset. This project aims at developing a methodology and materials to help assess the performance of the...
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roscas from Cotonou, Benin. We notice that the groups run by a president alone are more likely to fall apart. We also present …
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The widespread use of traditional rice-parboiling methods in Benin leads to poor quality of final rice. To address this … problem, the national agricultural research institute of Benin and Africa Rice Center have developed improved rice parboiling … central Benin to estimate the actual and potential adoption rates of this technology and the determinants of its diffusion and …
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In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females …-paid jobs can be detected and quantiffed. We estimate the gender relative probability of getting any given job position for full …
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Despite decades of gender-balanced recruitment and clear-cut criteria for promotion based on meritocracy, women in …
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the observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less …
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The report proposes a critical approach of European job quality indicators. It relies on both theoreti-cal and empirical analysis, and shows the necessity to introduce complementary variables, such as wages, working conditions and training duration. Comparative results for the EU 27 confirm the...
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This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a general … are assumed to decrease the time that parents spend on their children. The model shows that gender discrimination may … gender discrimination. An increase in the discrimination level implies a related decrease in fertility, women's participation …
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