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An experiment on the impact of weather shocks and insurance on risky investment
Hill, Ruth Vargas; Viceisza, Angelino - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
We conduct a framed field experiment in rural Ethiopia to test the seminal hypothesis that insurance provision induces farmers to take greater, yet profitable, risks. Farmers participated in a game protocol in which they were asked to make a simple decision: whether to purchase fertilizer, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505327
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Potential collusion and trust: Evidence from a field experiment in Vietnam
Torero, Maximo; Viceisza, Angelino - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
We conduct framed trust games using contract dairy farmers in Vietnam as first movers to assess the impact of potential collusion on trust. Disaggregated analysis suggests that female farmers are more likely to trust overall, but are also more responsive to the addition of a third party and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009189430
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The formation of job referral networks: Experimental evidence from ubran Ethiopia:
Caria, Antonia Stefano; Hassen, Ibrahim Worku - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
In this study we focus on exclusion from job contact networks, which constitutes a major disadvantage for labor market participants in settings where referral hiring is common and information about jobs hard to obtain. In a mid-size town in northern Ethiopia, where these mechanisms are at work,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685636
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Impacts of IFPRI's "priorities for pro-poor public investment" global research program:
Renkow, Mitch - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
This report assesses the impact of the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) Global Research Program on Priorities for Public Investment in Agriculture and Rural Areas (“GRP-3â€). Initiated in 1998, the stated objectives of the research program were (1) to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132598
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The impact of Bolsa Família on schooling: Girls’ advantage increases and older children gain:
de Brauw, Alan; Gilligan, Daniel O.; Hoddinott, John F.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
We estimate the impact of Bolsa Família on a range of education outcomes, including school participation, grade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132647
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The other asian enigma: Explaining the rapid reduction of undernutrition in Bangladesh:
Headey, Derek D.; Hoddinott, John F.; Ali, Disha; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
South Asia has long been synonymous with persistent and unusually high rates of child undernutrition—the so-called Asian enigma. Yet contrary to this stereotype, Bangladesh has managed to sustain a rapid reduction in the rate of child undernutrition for at least two decades. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132694
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Understanding the rapid reduction of undernutrition in Nepal, 2001-2011:
Headey, Derek D.; Hoddinott, John F. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
Given recent interest in reducing undernutrition–particularly the role of nutrition-sensitive policies–this paper aims to quantitatively understand this surprising success story by analyzing the 2001, 2006, and 2011 rounds of Nepal’s Demographic Health Surveys. To do so, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132707
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Why women are progressive in education?: Gender disparities in human capital, labor markets, and family arrangement in the Philippines
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Tiongco, Marites - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
This paper shows mutually consistent evidence to support female advantage in education and disadvantage in labor … level of schooling investments in daughters. Because wage penalty to females in labor markets means that education is … relatively important as a determinant of their earnings, parental investments in their daughters’ education has larger impacts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132714
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Southern African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Hachigonta, Sepo (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132811
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The nutritional returns to parental education:
Alderman, Harold; Headey, Derek D. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
Though parental education is widely perceived to be an important determinant of child nutrition outcomes, there remain … significant uncertainties about whether maternal or paternal education matters most, whether there are increasing or decreasing … returns to parental education, and whether these returns are robust given that recent gains in enrollment have not always …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114784