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43 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16988
On the Effects of Wildfires on Poverty in Bolivia
Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza, Alejandro Puerta-Cuartas, Andrey Ramos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16507
Minimum Wages and Unemployment during Economic Shocks
Joshua D. Merfeld, Matthew Sharp
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16421
Rainfall Variability and Labor Allocation in Uzbekistan: The Role of Women's Empowerment
Vladimir Otrachshenko, Olga Popova, Nargiza Alimukhamedova
published in: Post-Soviet Affairs, 2024, 40 (2), 119–138
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16347
Gender-Biased Technological Change: Milking Machines and the Exodus of Women from Farming
Philipp Ager, Marc Goñi, Kjell G. Salvanes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16030
Thriving in the Rain: Natural Shocks, Time Allocation, and Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh
Sveva Vitellozzi, Gianna Claudia Giannelli
published in: World Development, 2024, 181, 106684
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15834
Market Facilitation Program Payments, Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Coverage and Off-Farm Employment
Ashok K. Mishra, Alexis H. Villacis, Cristina D. M. Miller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15583
Intra-Household Bargaining in Ivory Coast: Experimental Evidence from Rural Areas
Ralitza Dimova, Edouard Pokou Abou, Arnab K. Basu, Romane Viennet
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15578
Parental Risk Preferences, Maternal Bargaining Power, and the Educational Progressions of Children: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from Rural Côte D'Ivoire
Arnab K. Basu, Ralitza Dimova, Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou, Romane Viennet
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15466
Evaluating the Impacts of Minigrid Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sinem H. Ayhan, Giacomo Falchetta, Jan C. Steckel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15262
Health Insurance Coverage, Government Payments, and Labor Allocation
Cristina D. M. Miller, Ashok K. Mishra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14864
The Importance of Specification Choices When Analyzing Sectoral Productivity Gaps
Joshua D. Merfeld, Peter Brummund
published in: Agricultural Economics, 2022, 53 (4), 605-616
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14703
Should Farmers Farm More? Comparing Marginal Products within Malawian Households
Peter Brummund, Joshua D. Merfeld
published in: Agricultural Economics, 2022, 53 (2), 289 - 306
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14568
The Gendered Effects of Climate Change: Production Shocks and Labor Response in Agriculture
Farzana Afridi, Kanika Mahajan, Nikita Sangwan
published as 'The Gendered Effects of Droughts: Production Shocks and Labor Response in Agriculture' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102227
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14523
Using Bank Savings Product Design for Empowering Women and Agricultural Development
Jose C. Galdo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14391
Sectoral Wage Gaps and Gender in Rural India
Joshua D. Merfeld
published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2023, 105 (2), 434-452
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14062
Household Preferences and Child Labor in Rural Ethiopia
Arnab K. Basu, Ralitza Dimova
published in: Journal of African Economies, 2024, 33 (1), 20 - 45
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13712
Gendering Technological Change: Evidence from Agricultural Mechanization
Farzana Afridi, Monisankar Bishnu, Kanika Mahajan
published as 'Gender and Mechanization: Evidence from Indian Agriculture' in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2023, 105 (1), 52 - 75
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13682
Smallholders, Market Failures, and Agricultural Production: Evidence from India
Joshua D. Merfeld
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13269
Market Competition and Discrimination
Abu Siddique, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou
published in: European Economic Review, 152, 104361, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13011
Household Behavioral Preferences and the Child Labor-Education Trade-off: Framed Field Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
Arnab K. Basu, Ralitza Dimova
published as 'Household Preferences and Child Labor in Rural Ethiopia ' in: Journal of African Economis, 2024, 33 (1), 20 - 45
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12930
Agricultural Credits and Agricultural Productivity: Cross-Country Evidence
Unal Seven, Semih Tumen
published in: Singapore Economic Review, 2020, 65, 161-183
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12878
Selection and Absolute Advantage in Farming and Entrepreneurship
Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francesco Amodio, Markus Poschke
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12320
Incentivizing Learning-By-Doing: The Role of Compensation Schemes
Joshua Graff Zivin, Lisa B. Kahn, Matthew Neidell
published in: S. W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos, G. Russo, G. van Houten (eds.): Workplace Productivity and Management Practices, Research in Labor Economics 49, 2021, 139 - 178
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11435
School or Work? The Role of Weather Shocks in Madagascar
Francesca Marchetta, David E. Sahn, Luca Tiberti
published as 'The Role of Weather on Schooling and Work of Young Adults in Madagascar' in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2019, 101 (4), 1203 - 1227
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10969
Economic Origins of Cultural Norms: The Case of Animal Husbandry and Bastardy
Christoph Eder, Martin Halla
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 125, 103421
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10376
Is the Allocation of Time Gender Sensitive to Food Price Changes? An Investigation of Hours of Work in Uganda
Daniela Campus, Gianna Claudia Giannelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9976
Child Labor in China
Can Tang, Liqiu Zhao, Zhong Zhao
published in: China Economic Review, 2018, 51, 149-166
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9971
Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector: How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor
Alexander M. Danzer, Robert Grundke
published as 'Export price shocks and rural labor markets: The role of labor market distortions' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 145, 102464
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9521
Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9454
Welfare Implications of India's Employment Guarantee Programme with a Wage Payment Delay
Parantap Basu, Kunal Sen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8840
Economic Shocks and Internal Migration
Joan Monras
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8687
Informal Employment in Transition Countries: Empirical Evidence and Research Challenges
Hartmut Lehmann
published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2015, 57 (1), 1-30
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8657
Seasonal Credit Constraints and Agricultural Labor Supply: Evidence from Zambia
Günther Fink, Kelsey Jack, Felix Masiye
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8570
A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy
Solomon Polachek, Xu Zhang, Xing Zhou
published in: Gender Convergence in the Labor Market, Research in Labor Economics, 41, 2015, 35-88.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8567
Climate Vulnerability, Communities' Resilience and Child Labour
Delphine Boutin
published in: Revue d’Economie Politique, 2014, 124 (4), 625-638
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8564
Young Entrepreneurs in Rural Africa: Prevalence, Determinants, Productivity
Paula Nagler, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8524
Labor Productivity in Rural African Enterprises: Empirical Evidence from the LSMS-ISA
Paula Nagler, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8179
Payment for Ecosystem Services from Forests
Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Hendrik Wolff
published in: Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2014, 6, 361-380
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8008
Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa: Patterns and Determinants
Paula Nagler, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7133
Immigrant Workers and Farm Performance: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Jakob R. Munch, Claus Aastrup Seidelin, Jan Rose Skaksen
published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2013, 95 (4), 819-841
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6521
Land Use Rights, Market Transitions, and Labor Policy Change in China (1980-4)
Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3979
Cream-Skimmer or Underdog? Labor Type Selectivity, Pre-Program Wage, and Rural Labor Training Program Outcome
Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3403
Does Off-Farm Labor Relax Farmers’ Credit Constraints? Evidence from Longitudinal Data for Vietnam
Marco Stampini, Benjamin Davis
revised version published in: Agricultural Economics, 2009, 40(2), 177-188
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