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Peeing out of poverty? : human fertilizer and the productivity of farming households
Pettersson, Jan; Wikström, Johan - 2013
In many parts of the world, soils poor in nutrients are farmed with little addition of fertilizer, further depleting the farmland. The very same farmers often face poor sanitary solutions. So-called ecological sanitation aims at providing sanitation and at recycling nutrients as fertilizer. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009688537
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Here comes the rain again: productivity shocks, educational investments and child work
Nordman, Christophe J.; Sharma, Smriti; Sunder, Naveen - 2020
deviations from long-term average - on education expenditures and children's work status in rural Indian households. Our results … show that a transitory increase in rainfall significantly reduces education expenditures and increases the likelihood of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242346
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Child skill production : accounting for parental and market-based time and goods investments
Caucutt, Elizabeth M.; Lochner, Lance; Mullins, Joseph; … - 2020 - Last updated: September 11, 2020
first document strong increases in total investment expenditures by maternal education; yet expenditure shares, which skew … relative productivity of different inputs, and the role played by parental education. This approach requires no assumptions …, with elasticities of substitution ranging from 0.2 to 0.5. We find no systematic effects of parental education on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271679
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Parenthood and productivity of highly skilled labor : evidence from the groves of academe
Krapf, Matthias; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Zimmermann, … - 2014
We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as documented in their RePEc accounts, we do not find that motherhood is associated with low research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010236448
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Parenthood and productivity of highly skilled labor : evidence from the groves of academe
Krapf, Matthias; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Zimmermann, … - 2014
We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as documented in their RePEc accounts, we do not find that motherhood is associated with low research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249692
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Little divergence in America : market access and demographic transition in the United States
Guldi, Melanie; Rahman, Ahmed S. - 2022
19th century in the United States. We construct new measures of fertility changes and measures of railroad access at the … county level from 1850 - 1890. We are able to document market-access-induced changes in fertility due to both extensive … margins (shifts in occupations with different average fertility rates) and intensive margins (changes in fertility within each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013173243
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Taxation and Domestic Free Trade
Johnsson, Richard - Ratioinstitutet - 2004
In this paper it is argued that the domestic division of labor and trade is organized according to the same principle as the international division of labor and trade – the Ricardian comparative advantages. After all, the ultimate source of these comparative advantages is the individual. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642399
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Here Comes the Rain Again : Productivity Shocks, Educational Investments and Child Work
Nordman, Christophe - 2020
deviations from long-term average – on education expenditures and children's work status in rural Indian households.Our results … show that a transitory increase in rainfall significantly reduces education expenditures and increases the likelihood of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829929
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The determinants of subsistence income in a Malthusian world
Strulik, Holger; Weisdorf, Jacob - 2009
This study constructs a simple, two-sector Malthusian model with agriculture and industry, and use it to identify the determinants of subsistence income. We make standard assumptions about preferences and production technology, but by contrast to existing studies we assume that children and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857649
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The Physiological Foundations of the Wealth of Nations
Dalgaard, Carl‐Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2010
Evidence from economics, anthropology and biology testifies to a fundamental trade-off between the number of offspring (quantity) and amount of nutrition per child (quality). This leads to a theory of pre-industrial growth where body size as well as population size is endogenous. But when...
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