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Exploring The Spatial Structure of Interregional Supply Chain: A Multilayer Network Approach
Maulana, Ardian; Hokky, Situngkir - 2024
insights gained from this study have implications for the macro-control of regional development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015213552
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Heterogeneous effects of livelihood strategies on household well-being: An analysis using unconditional quantile regression with fixed effects
Tran, Tuyen; Vu, Huong - 2019
Using a household panel dataset for the 2008-2016 period, we analyze the heterogeneous effects of livelihood change on household well-being in rural Vietnam. We use an unconditional quantile regression (UQR) model with fixed effects to control for unobservable time-invariant household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015222818
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How Education Empowers Women in Developing Countries
Le, Kien; Nguyen, My - 2020
This paper evaluates the impacts of education on women’s relational empowerment, within a context of 70 developing countries across the world. Exploiting the variation in educational attainment between biological sisters, we find that education is positively associated with women’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015226096
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Comparative Analysis of Ethnic Diversity Measures on Provisioning of Basic Public Goods: Cross Country Assessment
Mahzab, Moogdho; Atiq, Mohsina; Devdariani, Nino - 2013
Ethnic diversity and provision of public goods have long been understood to share a negative relationship. While there has been a concerted effort to define and measure ethnic diversity around the world, we are interested in analyzing the possible differences in these measures when it comes to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015231877
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Equilibrium and Optimal Fertility with Increasing Returns to Population and Endogenous Mortality
Cuberes, David; Tamura, Robert - 2017
investment in human capital. In the model, the aggregate production function exhibits increasing returns to population arising … generates a demographic transition but, since households do not internalize the positive effects of a larger population on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015257037
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The Political Economy of Development: A Critical Assessment of Balochistan, Pakistan
Ahmed, Manzoor; Baloch, Akhtar - 2017
of social and economic under-development of the province. After presenting a brief and critical account on the historical … development of the people of Balochistan, the paper argues that the province of Balochistan notwithstanding having a huge and … resourceful land has failed to keep the pace of socio-economic development and modernity with other fellow provinces in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015257133
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An economic analysis of polygamy
Grossbard, Shoshana - 1976
This article offers insights into the determinants of polygyny through an analysis of data from Maiduguri, a predominantly Moslem city in northeastern Nigeria. This is the first econometric study of polygamy. It also uses economic theory to derive predictions regarding the effects of male and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015257336
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Les motivations des femmes entrepreneures du secteur informel à Dakar (Sénégal)
DIA, Ibrahima - 2017
In developing countries and particular in Senegal the majority of women are poor. Microenterprises created by a part of these women, especially in the informal sector, qualitatively improve their lives and those of their families and arouse increasingly growing interest for public authorities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015257421
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Do Private Household Transfers to the Elderly Respond to Public Pension Benefits? Evidence from Rural China
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019
Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the standard of living for the elderly. The often-overlooked mechanism of intergenerational transfers, however, can dampen these intended policy effects, as adult children who make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015264357
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Difference in choice of occupation among linguistic communities of Karachi
Alvi, Mohsin - 2019
Pakistan is a country where more than 57 languages are being spoken, belong to different cultural background. Karachi, being the biggest city and the major economic arena of the country, is a place where many communities reside together. To name the major communities, there are Urdu speaking,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015266019