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Asset dynamics in Northern Nigeria:
Dillon, Andrew; Quiñones, Esteban J. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
This paper examines household asset dynamics and gender-differentiated asset inequality over a 20-year period (1988 … empirical results on poverty traps. We also investigate whether initial household endowments contributed to gender … the relative prices of the assets in gender-differentiated asset portfolios. Men, who primarily held larger livestock with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862338
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Measuring child labor: Comparisons between hours data and subjective measures
Dillon, Andrew - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"This paper examines a subjective measure of child labor as an alternative to hours data for eliciting the distribution of children's time between work, school, and leisure. The subjective child labor questions that were developed have two primary advantages. First, the subjective measures avoid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967163
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Child labor and schooling responses to production and health shocks in northern Mali:
Dillon, Andrew - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"This paper investigates children's time allocation to schooling, home production, and market production using a unique data set collected from northern Mali. Production shocks from harvest period pest infestations induce households to withdraw children from school and increase the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038087