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Livelihood alternatives to labor migration : a choice experiment in Tajikistan

Lambrecht, Isabel; Rajiv, Sharanya; Block, Wouter de; … - 2026

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Lifecycle land decumulation strategies in a seventeenth-century rural community

Curtis, Daniel R.; Besouw, Bram van - 2025

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Land Degradation Neutrality Priority in Uzbekistan

Egamberdiev, Bekhzod; Primov, Abdulla; Khamidov, Imomjon - 2026

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The impacts of depopulation and climate change on the cost of rural electric services

Li, Liqing; Hrozencik, R. Aaron; Rad, Mani Rouhi; Uz, Dilek - 2026

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Revitalizing rural communities through institutional reform of quasi-markets

Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus - 2026

Welfare services such as healthcare, elderly care, and education are key to ensuring quality of life generally, and vital for rural communities across urbanizing countries. While these sectors are largely tax-financed, several countries have established quasi-markets to achieve competition...

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Land reform and rural transformation : linking land tenure security to labour reallocation, international migration, and nutritional outcomes in sub-saharan africa

Haddis, Solomon - 2026

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Migration reform and fertility : evidence from rural China

Jin, Wenchao; Jin, Zhangfeng - 2026

How do institutional barriers to migration shape fertility in developing economies? We analyze the staggered removal of institutional barriers to rural-to-urban migration across 283 Chinese cities. We find that reducing these frictions led to a significant and persistent increase in fertility in...

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Banks protecting children : agricultural income shocks, child health, and financial development in rural India

Argyros, Dimitrios - 2026

This study examines the role of financial infrastructure in shaping child health outcomes in rural India, with a particular focus on whether access to rural banking mitigates the adverse effects of agricultural income shocks. Using data from the National Family and Health Surveys (NFHS), I...

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From phone access to food markets : how mobile connectivity is transforming rural livelihoods in West Africa

Ariolle, Joël C.; Carroll, David Alexander, II - 2026 - Update January 2026

We show that mobile connectivity transforms household livelihoods in ways that foster food market integration in WAEMU countries. Using cross-sectional data on nearly 60,000 households and 146 food products traded across 5,000 enumeration areas in eight member states (2018-2019), we combine...

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Residential segregation and unequal access to local public services in India : evidence from 1.5m neighborhoods

Asher, Sam; Jha, Kritarth; Novosad, Paul; Adukia, Anjali; … - 2026

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Zukunftsfähige Dörfer : Qualitäten und Handlungsfelder einer Dorfgestaltung jenseits des Wachstums

Gebauer, Janas - 2026

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The role of broadband adoption/use in the survival and growth of food and drink micro-businesses in remote-rural Scotland

Gilani, Sayed Abdul Majid; Tantry, Ansarullah; Askri, … - 2026

The purpose of this article is to investigate the drivers and barriers to broadband adoption/use by food and drink micro-business owner-managers based in remote-rural Scotland. This study adopts a mixed methods approach consisting of 141 questionnaires involving rural restaurants, which is then...

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Two-stage evolutionary dynamics of fiscal subsidy reforms : tripartite game analysis in China's biomass energy transition

Zhang, Yunsheng; Wang, Shuting; Zhou, Ruomeng - 2026

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Sowing seeds of mobility : the gendered impact of land reform

Chen, Ting; Gu, Jiajia; Ngai, Liwa Rachel; Wang, Jin - 2026

We study how land market frictions affect men and women differently during structural transformation, exploiting two major Chinese land reforms that strengthened farmers' rental rights. Using large-language-model text analysis, we construct a county-level reform index and combine it with large...

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Making cross-sector partnerships work : how local NGOs navigate place, governance, and social dynamics in rural water access projects in stratified contexts

Mahanti, Ahaana - 2026 - First edition

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Migration responses to state abortion policy

Molina, Teresa; Siegal, Nicole; Choi, Jaehyun - 2026

This paper examines whether and how migration decisions respond to state-level changes in abortion policy in the United States. Using information on gestational age limit abortion restrictions and interstate migration from 2006-2019, we estimate a gravity model of migration. We predict bilateral...

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The socio-spatial making and breaking of the rural commons in Hong Kong

Ng, Mee Kam - 2026

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Coupling social networks with space : the embeddedness of low-skilled returnee’ entrepreneurship in rural China

Zhang, Yue; Liu, Langjie; Zha, Xiaofang; Sun, Li; … - 2026

Urban-to-rural return migration has become an increasingly important force reshaping rural livelihoods in China. Yet existing research on returnee entrepreneurship often assumes that migrants can transfer trans-local networks and resources accumulated during migration back to their hometowns and...

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The role of the Mobility of Care in rural areas : an exploratory analysis in South Tyrol

Chizzali, Carolina; Ravazzoli, Elisa; Dianin, Alberto - 2026

Mobility of Care (MoC) encompasses all trips made for unpaid care work, including caregiving and domestic responsibilities. Previous studies have shown the prevalence of the MoC in daily mobility, its disproportionate impact on women, and its key characteristics. However, research has mostly...

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Shared knowledge, shared lives : literacy spillovers in rural Spanish households, 1906-1920

Femi-Oladunni, Opeyemi Afolabi - 2026

This article reconceptualises literacy as a household resource rather than an individual endowment, using linked census and fiscal microdata from rural Spain (1906-1920) to estimate its returns for illiterate co-residents and test whether the economic boom induced literacy adoption. Findings...

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Are university students less trusting and trustworthy than rural people in Malawi?

Holden, Stein Terje; Tione, Sarah; Tilahun, Mesfin; … - 2026

Trust and trustworthiness are central to economic development and are frequently studied using behavioral experiments. A concern is that such evidence often relies on student samples, raising questions about external validity. While existing studies, largely from high-income countries, suggest...

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Development of tourism in local communities : a systematic review of literature on tourism development with collaborative management in rural areas

Glažar, Tjaša - 2026

This integrative literature review explores the relationship between community-based tourism (CBT) development and local community involvement, focusing on collaborative management in rural areas. Following PRISMA 2020 guidelines, 27 peer-reviewed articles-24 empirical and 3 review...

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Utility and the unseen : modelling the determinants of church growth in rural india

Perkins, Oliver - 2026

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Land, G versus R, and infinite debt rollover

Hirano, Tomohiro; Akira Toda, Alexis - 2026

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Internet use and child malnutrition : evidence from rural areas in China

Li, JingYu; Lee, Ji Yong; Lee, Sang Hyeon - 2026

Child malnutrition has long posed a serious threat the development of human capital in developing countries. As digitalization advances, the internet has become an integral part of daily life. This paper examines the impact of internet use on long-term and short-term child malnutrition in rural...

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Environmental regulation and energy poverty : straw-burning bans in China

Xu, Peng; Best, Rohan; Mukhopadhaya, Pundarik - 2026

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Governing artificial intelligence for sustainable territorial development in fragile contexts : insights from North Lebanon

Khneyzer, Chadi; Boustany, Zaher; Dagher, Jean - 2026

Sustainable territorial development seeks to balance economic growth, social well-being, and environmental preservation across spatial contexts. In fragile and resource-constrained regions, achieving this balance remains particularly challenging. With the growing diffusion of artificial...

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The impacts, mechanisms, and patterns of China rural collective economic development with common prosperity for all

Gai, Qingen; He, Zhiqiang; Su, Fangfang; Zhao, Wencheng - 2026

As a fundamental tenet of socialism with Chinese characteristics, pursuing common prosperity for all entails reducing urban-rural disparities while simultaneously increasing rural household income. This study utilizes interview and survey data from the "Chinese Thousand Villages Survey"...

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Labor reallocation as a mediating channel : farmland transfer and household financial vulnerability in rural China

Lu, Zhongrui; Hu, Jie; Luo, Jianchao - 2026

The reallocation of production factors, particularly labor, is central to understanding economic development and household welfare. This paper investigates how the transfer of farmland, a fundamental shift in factor endowment, affects rural household financial vulnerability, with a specific...

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The urban-rural gap in local market access : evidence from grocery demand

Seidel, Tobias; Kluser, Frederic; Ehrlich, Maximilian von - 2026

This paper leverages quasi-experimental variation from store openings and 1.5 billion grocery transactions to causally estimate the distance elasticity of grocery expenditures (−1.47) and the spatial extent of local consumption areas (approximately 16 minutes of car travel time). We embed...

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Household resilience during climate shocks in rural Benin : the role of gender social norms in child school dropout

Dedehouanou, Fidèle Ange; Menoua, Marthe Vihoutou … - 2026

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Does social identity constrain rural entrepreneurship? : evidence on the role of financial inclusion

Garg, Sandhya; Gupta, Samarth; Mallick, Sushanta Kumar - 2026

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Exploring Okun's Law during COVID-19 : did divergent US state responses shape economic shifts?

Maza, Adolfo - 2026

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Gemeinsam fürs Gemeinwohl in ländlichen Regionen : Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung (BBSR) im Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung (BBR)

2026 - Stand: August 2025

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Stuck in the fields : how rising temperatures deepen gender inequality in rural India

Mukherjee, Manisha - 2026

This paper documents how pre-existing social institutions shape adaptation to climate change in rural India, resulting in a gendered adaptation gap that is rooted in the interaction between caste-based agrarian structures and gender norms. Using a district-level panel from 1987 to 2012, I find...

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Geocriminality : state instrumentalization of criminality abroad

2026

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Strategic changes of the farming system in Italian rural areas

Henke, Roberto; Carillo, Felicetta; Cimino, Orlando - 2026

This article examines the evolution of Italian farms over the past decade and assesses whether their structural and economic transformations align with the prevailing patterns of agricultural development across different rural areas, as identified by the Italian institutions responsible for...

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Changes in work participation across genders in rural India : evidence from 2019 and 2024 time use surveys

Kumar, Anjani; Bathla, Seema; Singh, Dhiraj K. - 2026

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Intensification without empowerment? : gendered time burdens in India's livestock sector

Kumar, Anjani; Singh, Dhiraj K.; Kumar, Nalini Ranjan - 2026

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Putting AI to the test : evidence from a large-scale RCT in rural China

Ma, Yue; Feng, Tianli; Fairlie, Robert W.; Chengfang, Liu; … - 2026

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has heightened interest in personalizing computer assisted learning (CAL) programs to tailor their instruction to individual students. Despite the proliferation of AI-driven CAL programs, evidence for their effectiveness remains limited. We present...

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Mismatch in perceptions and knowledge? : prominent entrepreneurial resources through collaborative workspaces for social entrepreneurs

Gao, Chen - 2026

Social enterprises are increasingly taking advantage of local collaborative workspaces (CWSs) in rural areas to access entrepreneurial resources. CWSs are vital supporters for social enterprises to thrive and amplify their impact on rural development. However, despite the critical functions of...

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Carbon emission reduction pathways in China's rural production and household sectors : a TOE and fsQCA-Based analysis

Yin, Shi; Sun, Mengxiao; Xu, Ting - 2026

Rural clean energy transformation (CET) is essential for achieving Chinese national carbon reduction goals and addressing climate change. However, rural areas face distinct challenges stemming from fragmented infrastructure, uneven economic development, and diverse energy demands. Using the...

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Geographic disparities in service accessibility in Estonia and the Netherlands : how transport modes, proximity and capacity shape accessibility across cities, towns and rural areas

Almeida, Vanda; Brunelli, Filippo; Caisl, Jakub; … - 2026

Access to enabling services is an important determinant of labour market participation and social inclusion. This paper examines the role of capacity constraints and public transport access in shaping the accessibility of early childhood education and care (ECEC), primary schools and Public...

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Geographic disparities in service accessibility in Estonia and the Netherlands : How transport modes, proximity and capacity shape accessibility across cities, towns and rural areas

Almeida, Vanda - 2026

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Evaluating the social profitability of an all-weather rural road

Bell, Clive - 2026

Evaluating the social profitability of a feeder road involves not only estimating its construction costs and what changes it would induce in the villages served, but also valuing them correctly. The latter requires the use of shadow prices instead of market prices at certain stages of the...

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Parenting home visitation versus cash transfers for preschoolers : an RCT in rural Thailand

Kilenthong, Weerachart T.; Sartja Duangchaiyoosook; … - 2026

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Is there a resource curse in the US and Canada? : evidence from the shale revolution

Yamarik, Steven; Horky, Florian; Fidrmuc, Jarko - 2026

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Towards an integrated rural fire management framework in Portugal

2026

This policy paper brings together insights and recommendations from a two-year review of Portugal's wildfire management reforms following the extreme fires of 2017. The review focused on the implementation of Portugal's Integrated Rural Fire Management System, including its regulatory...

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Forecasting the path of SNAP spending using state-level panel data models

Valizadeh, Pourya; Issar, Akash; Bryant, Henry L.; … - 2026

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Digital Connectivity and Learning Losses during COVID-19 : Evidence from Rural India

Dasgupta, Aparajita; Parameswaran, Anulya; Singh, Yashveer - 2026

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Rural connectivity inequalities in Finland and Sweden : evidence, measures, and policy reflections

Bandaranayake, Sameera; Moradi, Amirreza; Suomalainen, Tanja - 2026

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