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We use a natural experiment in Taiwan to test whether mating competition is a major motive for entrepreneurship. With the defeat of the Kuomintang Party in China, more than one million soldiers and civilians, mainly young males, retreated to Taiwan in the late 1940s. Initially, the soldiers were...
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correlated production shocks (rainfall) or idiosyncratic household shocks (sickness and death). Using detailed panel data from … Indonesia, we examine how inter-household transfers within a household’s kin network respond to different types of shocks and … whether they are able to reduce household vulnerability. We find that households are exposed to meaningful risk from …
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despite the significance of these initiatives in enhancing the flow of institutional credit to agriculture, the links between … farm household–level dataset and instrumental variables two-stage least squares estimation methods, we investigate the … impact of institutional farm credit on farm income and farm household consumption expenditures. Our findings show that in …
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-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture project in Nigeria to identify associations between mechanization and farm household types. We then … simulate an agricultural household model to assess the potential demand for mechanization services in southern Nigeria. We find … slowly, across many farm household types; (3) tractor use in the South is highly concentrated among medium-scale rice …
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national household and community surveys (2016, 2018), coupled with in-depth interviews and focus group discussions, were … agricultural information; and (5) greater crop diversification, although diversification outside of agriculture remains low. Four … for these. Third, we observe greater awareness of promoted technologies, including conservation agriculture, pit planting …
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Between May and July 2018, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) implemented a household … households and how they assure sufficient food to meet the nutritional needs of their household members. The household …
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health shocks on household well-being. Does the pervasive effect of a negative household-level health shock persist beyond … household dynamics? To answer these questions this research paper measures the effect of household health shocks on female time …, it uses a wide range of covariates found in the 2012 and 2013 Pakistan Rural Household Panel Surveys, including …
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property ownership and the level of women’s input into household decisionmaking is explored with data from India, Mali, Malawi …, and Tanzania. In the three African countries, women with individual landownership have greater input into household … other household decisions is more mixed, as is the relationship between housing and input into household decisionmaking. No …
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Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are widely used antipoverty measures in Latin America, and many such programs include indigenous beneficiaries. However, concerns have been raised that the indigenous poor, who have historically been marginalized, may not benefit from CCTs as much as the...
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in Mon State as a whole. The survey included a household questionnaire and a community survey, and gathered information … on demographics, all economic aspects of the household, and access to infrastructure and services at the community level …
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