Showing 1 - 10 of 66
We examine the driving forces behind farmers’ decisions to adapt to climate change, and the impact of adaptation on farmers’ food production. We investigate whether there are differences in the food production functions of farm households that adapted and those that did not adapt. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746462
application of biome-averaged data over large forest areas is commonplace. Using a case study in the Bale Mountains in Ethiopia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126253
poverty compels work whereas a positive wage elasticity would favour the alternative view that children work because the … boys, consistent with the view that boys work on account of the compulsions of poverty. This is less clear in the case of … requires alleviation of the poverty of their households. Trade sanctions or bans on child labour may have deleterious …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744915
well-known inequality indices. The same cannot be said, in respect of poverty indices, for the second-order stochastic … dominance criterion for poverty analysis introduced by Atkinson (1987). Indeed, two of the best known poverty indices, the head … provides a more comprehensive coverage of poverty indice. By establishing the relationship between welfare and poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744956
evaluation comprise the alleviation of poverty and the reduction in income inequality, whilst the diversity of opinions about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745069
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745146
exploit this fact to identify the impact of opening a rural bank on poverty and output. Our estimates suggest that the Indian … rural branch expansion program significantly lowered rural poverty, and increased non-agricultural output. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745415
The techniques of simple random sampling are seldom appropriate in the empirical analysis of income distributions. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic considerations (the mapping of household/family distributions into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745529
This study uses data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study to examine the extent to which economic circumstances in infancy and mother's mental well-being are associated with children's cognitive development and behaviour problems at age 3 years, and what part parenting behaviours and attitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745555
Non-communicable diseases account for more than 50% of deaths in adults aged 15–59 years in most low income countries. Depression and diabetes carry an enormous public health burden, making the identification of risk factors for these disorders an important strategy. While socio-economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745662