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Measuring progress toward empowerment: Women's empowerment in agriculture index: Baseline report
Malapit, Hazel J.; Sproule, Kathryn; Kovarik, Chiara; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
interest to the US Government’s Feed the Future initiative. These poverty, health, and nutrition outcomes include both … low of 0.66 in Bangladesh. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132826
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Whose Money, Whose Time? A Nonparametric Approach to Modeling Time Spent on Housework
Ash, Michael A.; Gupta, Sanjiv - Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst - 2006
the relationship between earnings and housework, the “economic exchange” and “gender display” hypotheses. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005533182
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The New Home Economics at Colombia and Chicago
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - In: Feminist Economics 7 (2001) 3, pp. 103-130
of home production, a departmental policy de-emphasizing gender-related politics, and relatively high levels of civility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005451716
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The Effect of Domestic Work on Girls' Schooling: Evidence from Egypt
Assaad, Ragui; Levison, Deborah; Zibani, Nadia - In: Feminist Economics 16 (2010) 1, pp. 79-128
In Egypt, girls' work primarily takes the form of domestic tasks, which are not considered in many studies of child labor. This paper investigates the effect of girls' work on their school attendance. It uses a modified bivariate probit approach to estimate the effect of work on schooling while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502978
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Why do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C. - eSocialSciences - 2007
The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. [IZA Discussion Paper No. 115].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170185
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Household Expenditure on Cigarettes and Tobacco in Syria
Alachkar, Ahmad - School of Economics, University of Kent - 2008
The study uses average data from Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2004 in Syria to examine monthly household expenditure on cigarettes and tobacco and its relationships with a group of socioeconomic variables. It is found that this expenditure increases by average household income. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005404349
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Revenus individuels et dépendance financière des femmes et des hommes dans neuf pays européens en 2006
Meulders, Danièle; Plasman, Robert Alain; Rycx, Francois; … - Département d'Économie Appliquée (DULBEA), Solvay … - 2009
In the framework of the BGIA (Belgian Gender and Income Analysis) project, a methodology was developed to compute the … individual income of women and men in order to illustrate existing gender differences, also in terms of financial dependency …. This paper presents the gender distribution of individual income and financial dependency in nine European countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967597
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A case study of cash cropping in Nepal: Poverty alleviation or inequity?
Brown, Sandra; Kennedy, George - In: Agriculture and Human Values 22 (2005) 1, pp. 105-116
Agricultural commercialization as a mechanism to alleviate rural poverty raises concerns about small land-holders, non … increasing, sensitivity analysis and scenarios suggest high variability and limited short-term impact on poverty alleviation …
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Revisiting poverty measures towards individualisation
Meulders, Danièle; O'Dorchai, Sile - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011011712
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Urban Informal Sector: How much Women are Struggling for Family Survival
Khan, Tasnim; Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali Khan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
on contribution. The burden of the large family size, household poverty and loan availed by the household is shared by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027146