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Pro-Girl Bias in Intrahousehold Allocation in the Rural Philippines: Revisiting the ‘adult goods’ approach

Fuwa, Nobuhiko - 2014

This paper detects pro-girl (age 5-15) bias in intrahousehold allocation of consumption budget in the rural Philippines using Deaton’s “adult goods” method. Based on additional checks (including those for endogeneity), the results appear to be robust. The paper also finds that a larger...

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The Limits to Common Resource Management: The Bypassed Commons or Commons without Tragedy

Kebede, Yohannes - 1993

Land, labor, indigenous knowledge and institutional resources of producers in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia are investigated. Frequency distribution and comparative statistical analysis of the two regions with respect to these and other parameters suggest that in a situation where all...

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Культура как ресурс в модернизации аграрной экономики: измерение параметров, механизмы влияния на процессы преобразований

Stukach, Victor; Anicina, Nadejda - 2016

Objective: to study the influence of culture parameters on modernization processes in the agrarian sector of the economy. Object: modernization processes in society, the parameters of culture, social capital, the structure of transaction costs. The work contains recommendations to the business...

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The impact of micro finance and skill training intervention on single women's vulnerability in Nepal

Bista, Raghu - 2019

women in Nepal. This popular model is widely employed to improve socio economic empowerment of women, particularly single … women for restore and rehabilitate their life from this psychological trauma and vulnerability. Its result is claimed … positive. In this context, this paper examines whether the skill training and micro finance improves to empower single women …

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Testing for Separation in Agricultural Household Models and Unobservable Household-Specific Effects

Arcand, Jean-Louis; d'Hombres, Beatrice - 2006

When market structure is complete, factor demands by households will be independent of their characteristics, and households will take their production decisions as if they were profit-maximizing firms. This observation constitutes the basis for one of the most popular empirical tests for...

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Whose incentives? The evolution of inheritance practices, intergenerational conflict, and women’s control over land in rural Kenya

Linkow, Benjamin - 2010

to illustrate that despite legislation formalizing women’s rights to property, control over land continues to follow the …

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Intrahousehold Analysis Using Household Consumption Data: Would the Potential Benefit of Collecting Individual-Level Consumption Data Justify Its Cost?

Fuwa, Nobuhiko - 2005

This paper examines the usefulness and limits of household consumption expenditure data for understanding intrahousehold resource allocation issues. It also examines alternative data collection methods for obtaining household consumption information to be used for addressing such issues. While...

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The Welfare Impacts of Commodity Price Fluctuations: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Bellemare, Marc F.; Barrett, Christopher B.; Just, David R. - 2010

Many governments try to stabilize commodity prices based on the widespread belief that households value price stability and that the poor especially benefit from food price stabilization. We derive an exact measure of multivariate price risk aversion and of associated household willingness to...

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Look who's talking: the impacts of the intrahousehold allocation of mobile phones on agricultural prices

Lee, Kyeong Ho; Bellemare, Marc F. - 2012

Using data from the Philippines, we study the impact of mobile phones on the prices agricultural producers receive for their cash crop. We first look at the impact on price of mobile phone ownership at the household level. Because this masks a considerable amount of heterogeneity, we then look...

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Microfinance and Missing Markets

Emran, M. Shahe; Morshed, A.K.M Mahbub; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2011

The existing theoretical analysis of microfinance focuses on the nature of the loan contract such as group liability. We draw attention to the role of missing or imperfect labor market in understanding some of the important `second generation' debates in microfinance. Our analysis helps explain...

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