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Women's empowerment and nutrition : evidence from rural households in Africa and Asia

Maina, Cecilia Chemeli; Debela, Bethelhem Legesse; … - 2026

Women play key roles in food systems, yet continue to face persistent disadvantages in terms of low decision-making power and limited access to goods, services, and markets. Discrimination against women is often deeply ingrained in social norms, policies, and institutions. Widely observed gender...

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Cooperation under comparison

Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2026

We establish a new approach to the modeling of cooperation, and we formulate a new solution concept for cooperative games. We do this by constructing a game of cooperation between individuals who exhibit distaste for relative deprivation, RD, in the sense that they experience stress when their...

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Spousal cooperation and agricultural technology adoption

Ndip, Francis E.; Maina, Cecilia - 2026

Adoption of agricultural technologies is crucial for sustainable development, yet adoption of many relevant technologies remains low, especially among smallholder farmers in Africa. While there is an extensive literature aimed at understanding drivers of adoption, intra-household factors have...

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Urban sprawl and rurbanization : implications for dietary quality in Malawi

Kafotokoza, Joshua; Ameye, Hannah; Qaim, Matin - 2026

Urbanization contributes to changing food environments in sub-Saharan Africa, yet the implications for people's diets and nutrition remain insufficiently understood. Using four waves of nationally representative panel data from Malawi (2010-2019), we examine how local urbanization is associated...

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An inquiry into labor conditions across key rural sectors in Africa

Nzira, Jackson Elias; Parlasca, Martin Christoph; Qaim, … - 2025

While agriculture remains a key source of livelihoods in rural Africa, employment in other economic sectors is gaining in importance. However, details of the labor conditions are under-researched. Here, we examine labor conditions in different sectors of the rural economy using survey data from...

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Impact of super apps on the nutrition transition in low- and middle-income countries : evidence from Indonesia

Elmira, Elza Samantha; Suryahadi, Asep - 2025

Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are experiencing a nutrition transition from traditional diets to high-energy, processed foods, increasing non-communicable disease risks. Digitalization of food systems plays a significant role in shaping this transition. This paper investigates the...

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On a transformation of the Gini coefficient into a well-behaved social welfare function

Stark, Oded - 2025

Following Sen's (1973) characterization of the Gini coefficient as a ratio between a measure of aggregate income-based stress ("depression" in Sen's terminology) and aggregate income, we transform the Gini coefficient into a social welfare function rather than having the Gini coefficient feature...

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Agrivoltaics increases public acceptance of solar energy production on agricultural land

Zeddies, Hendrik Hilmar; Parlasca, Martin Christoph; … - 2025

Competition for land is a key challenge for decarbonized energy transitions. Open-space solar energy farms are gaining in importance but have large land requirements and displace agricultural production. Agrivoltaics offers a compromise, integrating solar panels into existing farming operations....

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Effects of recurrent rainfall shocks on poverty and income distribution in rural Ecuador

Llerena Pinto, María Cristhina; Mirzabaev, Alisher; … - 2025

Climate change is associated with an increasing frequency of extreme weather events, which can severely reduce people's welfare, especially in the Global South. Here, we analyse the impacts of rainfall shocks - including lacking and excessive rains - on economic and social outcomes, using...

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Women's off-farm employment and dietary quality in rural Africa

Mutsami, Chrispinus; Parlasca, Martin Christoph; Qaim, Matin - 2025

Most households in rural Africa are involved in smallholder farming, but off-farm employment is an important additional income source for many. Previous research has analyzed links between off-farm employment and wellbeing, but mostly at the household level, not considering that household...

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