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Women's labour supply and household insurance in Africa
Bhalotra, Sonia; Umaña-Aponte, Marcela - 2012
household consumption. We find little support for this hypothesis. Using comparable individual data on about 0.5 million women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319938
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Old-age pensions and female labour supply in India
Unnikrishnan, Vidhya; Sen, Kunal - 2020
Whether cash transfers have unintended behavioural effects on the recipient household's labour supply is of … that having a pension-eligible individual in the household increases the probability of working by 3.2 percentage points …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424077
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The rise in women's labour force participation in Mexico: Supply vs demand factors
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021
We estimate the relative importance of alternative labour supply and demand mechanisms in explaining the rise of female labour force participation over the last 55 years in Mexico. The growth of female labour force participation in Mexico between 1960 and 2015 followed an S-shape, with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424180
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Coffee price volatility and intra-household labour supply: Evidence from Viet Nam
Beck, Ulrik; Singhal, Saurabh; Tarp, Finn - 2016
Volatility in commodity markets poses an acute risk to farmers in developing countries who rely on cash crop agriculture. We combine a time series of international coffee prices with a long-running panel on coffee-growing households in Viet Nam to investigate coping mechanisms employed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532342
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Motherhood and flexible jobs: Evidence from Latin American countries
Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Edo, María; … - 2021
around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651104
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Children's endowment, schooling, and work in Ethiopia
Dendir, Seife - 2013
scores, especially for the latter ages, and household heterogeneities. On the policy front, the results suggest that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333674
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Migration and inheritance practices in the Bolivian Altiplano
Michels, Anne - 2011
Most theoretical approaches to inheritance assume that parents are the key actors of bequest decisions. However, in a context of important migration, children may play an active role in the inheritance process. Based on a unique data set collected at both ends of the migration link in Bolivia,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280133
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Exploring economic support networks amidst racial inequality in Namibia
Oppel, Annalena - 2021
Community or interpersonal support as a critical source of livelihood sustenance in the Global South can exhibit unequal dynamics. An understanding of these practices is primarily tied to the conceptual space of poverty or small communities. Less is known about how social support systems might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651173
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Eradicating women-hurting customs: What role for social engineering?
Platteau, Jean-Philippe; Camilotti, Guilia; Auriol, … - 2017
Social engineering refers to deliberate attempts, often under the form of legislative moves, to promote changes in customs and norms that hurt the interests of marginalized population groups. This paper explores the analytical conditions under which social engineering is more or less likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943748
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Following in their footsteps: An analysis of the impact of successive migration on rural household welfare in Ghana
Egge, Eva-Maria; Litchfield, Julie A. - 2018
The decision to migrate is often influenced by the experience of earlier migrants from one's household. Earlier …. We explore patterns of migration within rural households and the impact that these later migrants have on household … welfare outcomes. Specifically, we use a household panel survey collected in 2013 and 2015 in rural areas of Ghana. We exploit …
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