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Land and schooling: Transferring wealth across generations
Quisumbing, Agnes R. (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The authors of this book identify the factors affecting land inheritance and schooling across generations in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Ghana-countries with very different social and cultural traditions. Based on household surveys at each site, the authors examine how these factors affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752677
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Nonmarket networks among migrants
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Tanabe, Sakiko - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003
"This paper examines nonmarket interactions among migrants from same origins in the urban labor market of Bangkok …, Thailand. We test whether the labor-market performance of previous migrants has externalities to that of new migrants who moved … new migrants (negative substitution effect), (2) the employment probability of previous migrants increases those of new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997216
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Nonmarket networks among migrants
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Tanabe, Sakiko - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003
"This paper examines nonmarket interactions among migrants from same origins in the urban labor market of Bangkok …, Thailand. We test whether the labor-market performance of previous migrants has externalities to that of new migrants who moved … new migrants (negative substitution effect), (2) the employment probability of previous migrants increases those of new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037810
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Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda:
Van Campenhout, Bjorn - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
that fertility has a sizable negative effect on household labor allocation to subsistence agriculture. Households with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114773
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The Feminization of Agriculture with Chinese Characteristics:
de Brauw, Alan; Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010593556
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Gender, labor, and prime-age adult mortality: evidence from South Africa
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Buthelezi, Thabani; Velia, Myriam - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"This paper assesses the impact of prime-age mortality on human capital formation and labor markets by examining, first, the impact on adolescents, who may leave school in order to enter the labor market, and second, the impact on adult females who, upon the loss of a breadwinner, may decide to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997217
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Gender, labor, and prime-age adult mortality: evidence from South Africa
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Buthelezi, Thabani; Velia, Myriam - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"This paper examines the impact of prime-age adult mortality on the transition from school to the labor market of adolescents and on decisions by female adults to participate in the labor force in South Africa. The analysis focuses on that period—1998–2004—when South Africa experienced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037812
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Preliminary evidence on internal migration, remittances, and teen schooling in India:
Mueller, Valerie; Shariff, Abusaleh - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
remittances from internal migrants and human capital investment in rural areas. We employ a propensity score–matching approach to …-sectional nature of the data. We find a positive correlation between remittances received from internal migrants and the schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037993
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HIV and mobility in the Lake Victoria Basin agricultural sector: A literature review
Drimie, Scott; Weinand, Julia; Gillespie, Stuart; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
first examines how the conditions and structure of the migration process may increase HIV vulnerability for migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459972
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The comprehensive Africa agriculture program as a collective institution:
Kolavalli, Shashidhara; Birner, Regina; Flaherty, Kathleen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
governance and commitment to agriculture. These include negative spillover effects of poor governance (for example, obstacles to … rather than harmonized approaches to support African agriculture. The paper discusses the strategies that CAADP can use to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145648