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The Extended Family and Intrahousehold Allocation: Inheritance and Investments in Children in the Rural Philippines
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.
This paper examines the role of the extended family on investments in children, using data from a retrospective survey of three generations in the rural Philippines. Econometric results show that interactions between grandparent characteristics and child gender significantly affect the distribution of proposed land bequests between sons and daughters. However, grandparents significantly affect gender-specific investments in children's education only in resource-constrained families. Family-specific effects are more important in determining the pattern of investment in children within the nuclear family, while individual heterogeneity rather than family-specific unobservables dominates the extended family results. Interactions between parent characteristics...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Family; Economic Aspects; Philippines; Social Conditions; Gender issues; Land tenure; Gender; Property rights; Education; Consumer/Household Economics; Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 1995
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97311

INTRAHOUSEHOLD ALLOCATION AND GENDER RELATIONS: NEW EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM FOUR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Maluccio,   John A.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15932

Food Security and Nutrition Implications of Intrahousehold Bias: A Review of Literature
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Haddad,   Lawrence James; Pena,   Christine; Nishida,   Chizuru; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Slack,   Alison.
The success of development policy depends on the ability to successfully anticipate the response of individuals to changing incentives. Often, however, actual responses differ from anticipated responses. One important reason for this divergence is a poor understanding of how rights, responsibilities, and resources are allocated within institutions such as the household. The insights derived from intrahousehold research between the late 1970s and the mid-1980s on the determinants of food and nutritional status served as an important catalyst for the general development of the intrahousehold approach to development policy analysis. Despite serving as a building block for the wider study of intrahousehold resource allocation, there has not been an in-depth...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 1996
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42682

Comparing Food and Cash Transfers to the Ultra Poor in Bangladesh
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Ahmed,   Akhter U.; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Nasreen,   Mahbuba; Hoddinott,   John; Bryan,   Elizabeth.
Bangladesh has some social safety net programs that transfer food to the poor, some that transfer cash, and some that provide a combination of both. This study evaluates the relative impacts of food and cash transfers on food security and livelihood outcomes among the ultra poor in Bangladesh. The programs impacts are evaluated according to various measures, including how well transfers are delivered; which transfers beneficiaries prefer; how accurately the programs target the extremely poor; effects on food security, livelihoods, and women’s empowerment; and cost effectiveness. The report identifies what has and has not worked in food and cash transfers and recommends ways of improving these programs. This study will be valuable to policymakers and others...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Safety net programs; Food security; Women empowerment; Poverty reduction; Cash transfers; Cost effectiveness; Poverty; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92803

Helping women respond to the global food price crisis
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Meinzen-Dick,   Ruth Suseela; Bassett,   Lucy; Usnick,   Michael; Pandolfelli,   Lauren; Morden,   Cheryl; Alderman,   Harold.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48928

2009 Global Hunger Index; The Challenge of Hunger: Focus on Financial Crisis and Gender Inequality
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: von Grebmer,   Klaus; Nestorova,   Bella; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Fertziger,   Rebecca; Fritschel,   Heidi; Pandya-Lorch,   Rajul; Yohannes,   Yisehac.
Published by Welt Hunger Hilfe; International Food Policy Research Institute and Concern Worldwide
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56194

FOOD AID AND CHILD NUTRITION IN RURAL ETHIOPIA
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16003

MAQUILADORAS AND MARKET MAMAS: WOMEN'S WORK AND CHILDCARE IN GUATEMALA CITY AND ACCRA
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Hallman,   Kelly K.; Ruel,   Marie T.
This study analyzes work, childcare arrangements, and earnings of mothers in the poor neighborhoods of Guatemala City and Greater Accra, Ghana, two urban areas where formal-and informal-sector work differ in importance. Unlike previous studies on childcare that take mother’s work status as given, this paper treats childcare choice and labor force participation of women as joint decisions. Our empirical results indicate that participation in the labor market and use of formal day care are, in fact, jointly determined. In both Guatemala and Accra, life cycle and household demographic factors, notably child age, appear to have important effects on both decisions. In both cities, higher household wealth reduces the mothers’ chances of working, presumably via...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16444

Unpacking the Links Between Women's Empowerment and Child Nutrition Evidence Using Nationally Representative Data From Bangladesh
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Bhagowalia,   Priya; Menon,   Purnima; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Soundararajan,   Vidhya.
This paper examines the relationship between gender inequality and nutrition using direct indicators of empowerment such as mobility, decision-making power, and attitudes towards verbal and physical abuse. Our approach draws on the theory of the household as a utility maximizing unit that uses women’s status and characteristics as inputs to produce a final good, child health. Indices that capture distinct dimensions of women’s empowerment are used as explanatory variables along with controls for age and sex of the child, maternal height and education. Results from Logit models indicate that a greater degree of women’s empowerment is associated with better long term nutritional status of children. Attitudes towards domestic violence have a significant...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Malnutrition; Gender; Domestic violence; Empowerment; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; International Development.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61273

ASSETS AT MARRIAGE IN RURAL ETHIOPIA
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Fafchamps,   Marcel; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.
This paper examines the determinants of assets at marriage in rural Ethiopia. We identify and test three separate processes that determine assets brought to marriage: assortative matching, compensating parental transfers at marriage, and strategic behavior by parents. We find ample evidence for the first, none for the second, and some evidence of the third for brides. We also find no evidence of competition for parental assets among siblings. Results suggest that parents do not transfer wealth to children in ways that compensate for marriage market outcomes. Certain parents, however, give more assets to daughters whenever doing so increases the chances of a daughter marrying a wealthy groom.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Ethiopia; Property; Marriage Market; Intrahousehold allocation; Intergenerational transfers; Rural population; Inheritance; Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/60310

THE IMPACT OF PROGRESA ON WOMEN'S STATUS AND INTRAHOUSEHOLD RELATIONS; FINAL REPORT
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Adato,   Michelle; de la Briere,   Benedicte; Mindek,   Dubravka; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics; International Development; Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16026

CONSUMPTION INSURANCE AND VULNERABILITY TO POVERTY: A SYNTHESIS OF THE EVIDENCE FROM BANGLADESH, ETHIOPIA, MALI, MEXICO, AND RUSSIA
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Skoufias,   Emmanuel; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15981

DOES SUBSIDIZED CHILDCARE HELP POOR WORKING WOMEN IN URBAN AREAS? EVALUATION OF A GOVERNMENT SPONSORED PROGRAM IN GUATEMALA CITY
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Ruel,   Marie T.; de la Briere,   Benedicte; Hallman,   Kelly K.; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Coj de Salazar,   Nora.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15975

Land inheritance and schooling in matrilineal societies: evidence from Sumatra
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Otsuka,   Keijiro.
This research was supported by the Government of Japan, the United Kingdom's Department for International Development, and the United States Agency for International Development, Office of Women in Development, Grant No. FAO-0100-G- 00-5020-00, on "Strengthening Development Policy through Gender Analysis: An Integrated Multicountry Research Program." We would like to thank S. Suyanto and Novi Khususiyah for implementing the inheritance survey in Western Sumatra, Ellen Payongayong for excellent research assistance, and Jonna Estudillo and seminar participants at IFPRI and Syracuse University for helpful comments. All errors and omissions are ours.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50054

Human Capital Productivity, and Labor Allocation in Rural Pakistan
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Fafchamps,   Marcel; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.
This paper investigates whether human capital affects the productivity and labor allocation of rural households in four districts of Pakistan. The investigation shows that households with better-educated males earn higher off-farm income and divert labor resources away from farm activities toward nonfarm work. Education has no significant effect on productivity in crop and livestock production. The effect of human capital on household incomes is partly realized through the reallocation of labor from low-productivity activities to nonfarm work. Female education and nutrition do not affect productivity and labor allocation in any systematic fashion, a finding that is consistent with the marginal role women play in market-oriented activities in Pakistan. As a...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Female Labor; Income distribution; Gender issues; Labor productivity; Pakistan; Gender; Childcare; Work; Labor and Human Capital; Productivity Analysis.
Ano: 1998
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97040

CHILDCARE AND WORK: JOINT DECISIONS AMONG WOMEN IN POOR NEIGHBORHOODS OF GUATEMALA CITY
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Hallman,   Kelly K.; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Ruel,   Marie T.; de la Briere,   Benedicte.
This study investigates the effects of childcare on work and earnings of mothers in poor neighborhoods of Guatemala City. Recognizing that mother’s work status may depend on the availability of childcare, decisions to participate in the labor force and to use formal day care are modeled to allow for the possibility that they may be jointly determined. We then explore the impact of childcare prices on mother’s earnings, conditional on her decision to work. Also explored is whether a mother’s “status” within her household (as measured by the value of the assets she brought to her marriage) influences her entry into the labor force. The study uses a survey of 1,363 randomly selected mothers (working and nonworking) with preschool children collected in 1999 by...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16421

LAND, TREES, AND WOMEN: EVOLUTION OF LAND TENURE INSTITUTIONS IN WESTERN GHANA AND SUMATRA
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Otsuka,   Keijiro.
How do women's land rights change as customary tenure systems give way to individualized land tenure? While the individualization of land rights creates incentives for poor farmers in marginal areas to adopt agroforestry, not much is known about its impact on women's land rights. Land, Trees, and Women examines the evolution of customary land tenure institutions in areas of Western Ghana and Western Sumatra where traditional matrilineal inheritance systems have been changing. In these two areas, the authors find that individualization of land tenure has contributed to both increased gender equity and greater efficiency in agroforestry management. While property rights institutions are moving toward providing proper incentives for efficient natural resource...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16536

MAQUILADORAS AND MARKET MAMAS: WOMEN'S WORK AND CHILDCARE IN GUATEMALA CITY AND ACCRA
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Hallman,   Kelly K.; Ruel,   Marie T.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15938

CHILDCARE AND WORK: JOINT DECISIONS AMONG WOMEN IN POOR NEIGHBORHOODS OF GUATEMALA CITY
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Hallman,   Kelly K.; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Ruel,   Marie T.; de la Briere,   Benedicte.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15949

CONTROL AND OWNERSHIP OF ASSETS WITHIN RURAL ETHIOPIAN HOUSEHOLDS
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Fafchamps,   Marcel; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16005

ARE WEALTH TRANSFERS BIASED AGAINST GIRLS? GENDER DIFFERENCES IN LAND INHERITANCE AND SCHOOLING INVESTMENT IN GHANA'S WESTERN REGION
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Payongayong,   Ellen M.; Otsuka,   Keijiro.
This study attempts to analyze changing patterns of land transfers and schooling investments by gender over three generations in customary land areas of Ghana's Western Region. Although traditional matrilineal inheritance rules deny landownership rights to women, women have increasingly acquired land through gifts and other means, thereby reducing the gender gap in landownership. The gender gap in schooling has also declined significantly, though it persists. We attribute such changes to the increase in women's bargaining power due to an agricultural technology that increased the demand for women's labor, contributing to the reduction of "social" discrimination as well as weak "parental" discrimination.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Property rights; Land inheritance; Agricultural growth; West Africa; Africa south of Sahara; Wealth transfers; Gender; Ghana; Education; Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/60311

FOOD AID AND CHILD NUTRITION IN RURAL ETHIOPIA
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.
This paper uses a unique panel data set from Ethiopia to examine the determinants of participation in and receipts of food aid through free distribution (FD) and food-for-work (FFW). Results show that aggregate rainfall and livestock shocks increase household participation in both FD and FFW. FFW also seems well-targeted to asset-poor households. The probability of receiving FD does not appear to be targeted based on household wealth, but FD receipts are lower for wealthier households. The effects of FD and FFW on child nutritional status differ depending on the modality of food aid and the gender of the child. Both FFW and FD have a positive direct impact on weight-for-height. Households invest proceeds from FD in girls’ nutrition, while earnings from FFW...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food aid; Child nutrition; Ethiopia; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16393

WOMEN'S LAND RIGHTS IN THE TRANSITION TO INDIVIDUALIZED OWNERSHIP: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF TREE RESOURCES IN WESTERN GHANA
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Payongayong,   Ellen M.; Aidoo,   J.B.; Otsuka,   Keijiro.
This study explores the impact of changes in land tenure institutions on women's land rights and the efficiency of tree resource management in Western Ghana. We find that customary land tenure institutions have evolved toward individualized systems to provide incentives to invest in tree planting. However, contrary to the common belief that individualization of land tenure weakens women's land rights, these have been strengthened through inter vivos gifts and the practice of the Intestate Succession Law. Investment in tree planting, in turn, is affected not simply by the level of land tenure security, but also by its expected changes, as tree planting strengthens land tenure security. Cocoa yields are lower on allocated family land and rented land under...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94854

WOMEN'S ASSETS AND INTRAHOUSEHOLD ALLOCATION IN RURAL BANGLADESH: TESTING MEASURES OF BARGAINING POWER
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; de la Briere,   Benedicte.
This paper examines how differences in the bargaining power of husband and wife affect the distribution of consumption expenditures in rural Bangladeshi households. Two alternative measures of assets are used: current assets and the value of assets brought to marriage. Results show that both assets at marriage and current assets are strongly determined by the human capital of husband and wife and the characteristics of their origin families. For both husband and wife, parents’ landholdings are a consistent determinant of both assets at marriage and current assets. Contrary to the unitary model, husband’s and wife’s assets have different effects on the allocation of expenditures within the household. Wife’s assets have a positive and significant effect on...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16410

Gender and Poverty: New Evidence from 10 Developing Countries
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Haddad,   Lawrence James; Pena,   Christine.
This paper presents new evidence on the association between gender and poverty based on an empirical analysis of 11 data sets from 10 developing countries. The paper computes income- and expenditure-based poverty measures and investigates their sensitivity to the use of per capita and per adult equivalent units. It also tests for differences in poverty incidence between individuals in male- and female-headed households using stochastic dominance analysis. Stochastic dominance analysis reveals that differences between male- and female-headed households among the very poor are not sufficiently large that one can conclude that one is unambiguously worse- or better-off, except for a few exceptions. When we use the method of endogenous bounds, persons in...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Gender; Household resource allocation; Households; Poverty; Rural population; Developing Countries; Ghana; Bangladesh; Food Security and Poverty; Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 1995
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97310

The Impact of an Experimental Nutritional Intervention in Childhood on Education among Guatemalan Adults
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Maluccio,   John A.; Hoddinott,   John; Behrman,   Jere R.; Martorell,   Reynaldo; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Stein,   Aryeh D.
Early childhood nutrition is thought to have important effects on education, broadly defined to include various forms of learning. We advance beyond previous literature on early childhood nutrition on education in developing countries by (1) using unique longitudinal data from a nutritional experiment with lifetime educational measures; (2) avoiding confounding the estimates by excluding potentially endogenous right-side variables; and (3) using estimators that allow for nonnormal distributions. Our results indicate significantly positive, and fairly substantial, effects of the randomized intervention a quarter century after it ended: increased grade attainment by women, via increased likelihood of entering and completing primary school and some secondary...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Early childhood nutrition; Education; Nutritional intervention; Guatemala; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55896

CONSUMPTION INSURANCE AND VULNERABILITY TO POVERTY: A SYNTHESIS OF THE EVIDENCE FROM BANGLADESH, ETHIOPIA, MALI, MEXICO, AND RUSSIA
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Skoufias,   Emmanuel; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.
This paper synthesizes the results of five studies using household panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico and Russia, which examine the extent to which households are able through formal and/or informal arrangements to insure their consumption from specific economic shocks and fluctuations in their real income. Building on the recent literature of consumption smoothing and risk sharing, the degree of consumption insurance is defined by the degree to which the growth rate of household consumption covaries with the growth rate of household income. All the cases studies show that food consumption is better insured than nonfood consumption from idiosyncratic shocks. Adjustments in nonfood consumption appear to act as a mechanism for partially...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Bangladesh; Consumption; Ethiopia; Income; Mali; Mexico; Poverty; Risk-sharing; Russia; Vulnerability; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16424

Gender, Property Rights, and Natural Resources
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Meinzen-Dick,   Ruth Suseela; Brown,   Lynn R.; Feldstein,   Hilary Sims; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.
Attention to gender differences in property rights can improve the outcomes of natural resource management policies and projects in terms of efficiency, environmental sustainability, equity, and empowerment of resource users. Although it is impossible to generalize across cultures and resources, it is important to identify the nature of rights to land, trees, and water held by women and men, and how they are acquired and transmitted from one user to another. The paper particularly examines how the shift from customary tenure systems to private property--in land, trees, and water--has affected women, the effect of gender differences in property on collective action, and the implications for policy formulation and implementation.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 1997
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42662

Shocks, Groups, and Networks in Bukidnon, Philippines
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; McNiven,   Scott; Godquin,   Marie.
This study examines the role of groups and networks in helping poor Filipinos manage their exposure to risks and cope with shocks. It brings together two strands of literature that examine how social capital affects economic variables and investigate the processes by which social capital formation, participation in networks and groups, and trusting behavior comes about. Using a longitudinal study from a province in Northern Mindanao, Philippines, the authors find that households belong to a number of formal and informal groups and networks, but participation differs according to household characteristics. Households belonging to the lower asset quartiles belong to fewer groups, and households with more human and physical capital have larger social...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Social networks; Groups; Social capital; Poverty; Remittances; Philippines; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44357

GENERATING FOOD SECURITY IN THE YEAR 2020: WOMEN AS PRODUCERS, GATEKEEPERS, AND SHOCK ABSORBERS
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Brown,   Lynn R.; Feldstein,   Hilary Sims; Haddad,   Lawrence James; Pena,   Christine; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty; Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 1995
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16375

ARE WOMEN OVERREPRESENTED AMONG THE POOR? AN ANALYSIS OF POVERTY IN TEN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Haddad,   Lawrence James; Pena,   Christine.
This paper presents new evidence on the proportion of women in poverty in ten developing countries. It compares poverty measures for males and females and male- and female-headed households, and investigates the sensitivity of these measures to the use of per-capita and per-adult equivalent units and different definitions of the poverty line. While poverty measures are higher for female-headed households and for females, the differences are significant in only a fifth to a third of the datasets. Due to their low population share, the contribution of female-headed households to aggregate poverty is less than that of females. Stochastic dominance analysis reveals that differences between male- and female-headed households, and between males and females, are...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty; Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16439

Increasing the Effective Participation of Women in Food and Nutrition Security in Africa
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Meinzen-Dick,   Ruth Suseela; Smith,   Lisa C.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/45774

LA NUTRICION Y LA AYUDA EN ALIMENTOS -- DIFERENTES MODALIDADES, DIFERENTES IMPACTOS:  LAS LECCIONES DE ETIOPIA
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16520

The Guatemala Community Day Care Program: An Example of Effective Urban Programming
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Ruel,   Marie T.; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Hallman,   Kelly K.; de la Briere,   Benedicte; Coj de Salazar,   Nora.
The community daycare programs currently under way in several Latin American countries seek to promote human capital formation while relieving one of the most pressing constraints faced by working parents, especially mothers—access to reliable and affordable childcare. This research report presents the results of an evaluation of Guatemala’s Community Day Care program, which offers poor families a package of services to promote child nutrition, socialization, and development, under the condition that parents engage in income-generating activities outside the home. The program was created in the early 1990s as a response to the changing needs of the growing urban population. Given Guatemala’s rising rates of urbanization, the growing importance of formal...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Day care centers; Guatemala; Evaluation; Child care services; Nutrition; Urban women; Employment; Work and family; Hogares Communitarios Program; Community/Rural/Urban Development.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37886

INTRAHOUSEHOLD ALLOCATION AND GENDER RELATIONS: NEW EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM FOUR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Maluccio,   John A.
The paper reviews recent theory and empirical evidence testing unitary versus collective models of the household. In contrast to the unitary model, the collective model posits that individuals within households have different preferences and do not pool their income. Moreover, the collective model predicts that intrahousehold allocations reflect differences in preferences and "bargaining power" of individuals within the household. Using new household data sets from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Ethiopia, and South Africa, we present measures of individual characteristics that are highly correlated with bargaining power, namely human capital and individually-controlled assets, evaluated at the time of marriage. In all country case studies we reject the unitary...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16460

Better Rich, or Better There? : Grandparent Wealth, Coresidence, and Intrahousehold Allocation
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.
This paper uses three-generation retrospective data from the rural Philippines to examine the role of the extended family, proxied by alternative measures of grandparent coresidence, on investments in children. An extension of the wealth model of intergenerational transfers shows that extended family resources may affect transfers to children if parents are credit constrained. Family-level unobservables are important in determining the allocation of education and land between sons and daughters. Both parent and grandparent pre-marriage wealth affect children’s completed schooling levels. Grandparent wealth, however, does not seem to affect the distribution of education between sons and daughters, although it affects the allocation of land. Grandparent...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Resource Allocation; Gender issues; Education; Gender; Property rights; Household Resource Allocation; Education; Consumer/Household Economics.
Ano: 1997
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97298

NUTRITION AND FOOD AID -- DIFFERENT MODALITIES, DIFFERENT IMPACTS: LESSONS FROM ETHIOPIA
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16499

NUTRITION ET AIDE ALIMENTAIRE -- MODALITES DIFFERENTES, IMPACTS DIFFERENTS: LECONS D'ETHIOPIE
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16493

LAND AND SCHOOLING: TRANSFERRING WEALTH ACROSS GENERATIONS
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Estudillo,   Jonna; Otsuka,   Keijiro.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16594

DOES SUBSIDIZED CHILDCARE HELP POOR WORKING WOMEN IN URBAN AREAS? EVALUATION OF A GOVERNMENT SPONSORED PROGRAM IN GUATEMALA CITY
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Ruel,   Marie T.; de la Briere,   Benedicte; Hallman,   Kelly K.; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Coj de Salazar,   Nora.
High urbanization rates in Latin America are accompanied by an increase in women’s participation in the labor force and the number of households headed by single mothers. Reliable and affordable childcare alternatives are thus becoming increasingly important in urban areas. The Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), established in Guatemala City in 1991, was a direct response to the increasing need of poor urban dwellers for substitute childcare. This government-sponsored pilot program was designed as a strategy to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, quality childcare within their community. This paper presents preliminary findings from an evaluation of the HCP carried out in 1998 in urban slums of Guatemala City. The evaluation...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16404

Groups, Networks, and Social Capital in the Philippine Communities
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Godquin,   Marie; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.
This paper explores the determinants of group membership and social networks of rural households using a unique longitudinal data set from the rural Philippines. We investigate two types of social capital: membership in groups (production, credit, burial, religious and civic groups), or “formal” social capital, and size of trust-based networks or “informal” social capital. Because men and women may have different propensities to invest in social capital, we analyze the determinants of group membership both at the household level and for men and women separately. We also disaggregate the analysis by type of group. The paper examines the determinants of the density of social capital, proxied by the number of groups and the number of network members. Finally,...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Groups; Network; Social capital; Gender; Philippines; Asia; Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42507

ARE  WOMEN OVERREPRESENTED AMONG THE POOR? AN ANALYSIS OF POVERTY IN TEN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; Haddad,   Lawrence James; Pena,   Christine.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty; Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16006

Migration and the Rural-Urban Continuum: Evidence from the Rural Philippines
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; McNiven,   Scott.
Migration is an important livelihood strategy in the Philippines. In 1991, 26 percent of urban households and 13 percent of rural households received remittances from migrant parents or children. Although international migration has received more attention than internal migration, the latter is significant in the Philippines. Between 1980 and 1990, the number of persons over the age of five years who were not resident in the city or municipality they resided in five years ago, increased from 2.85 to 3.24 million. Recent migration flows are interprovincial, typically in the direction of Metropolitan Manila and surrounding areas, and are dominated by women. While the percentage of the population classified as urban increased from 36 percent in the mid-1970s...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Migration; Rural; Urban; Philippines; International Development; Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59599

WOMEN'S ASSET AND INTRAHOUSEHOLD ALLOCATION IN RURAL BANGLADESH: TESTING MEASURES OF BARGAINING POWER
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.; de la Briere,   Benedicte.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15964

Gender Differences In Agricultural Productivity: A Survey of Empirical Evidence
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Quisumbing,   Agnes R.
This paper reviews the econometric evidence on gender differences in agricultural productivity. It provides a methodological overview and a critique of (1) production function-based estimates of technical and labor productivity differences by gender, (2) individual (gender-disaggregated) labor supply and earnings functions and (3) studies of the determinants of technological adoption. The review finds that (1) in general, male and female farmers are equally efficient as farm managers. Women farmers' lower yields are attributable to lower levels of inputs and human capital than men. However, the use of coefficients estimated from these studies for simulation exercises may not be valid if endogenous input choice is not considered; (2) returns to schooling...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Health Economics and Policy; Labor and Human Capital; Productivity Analysis.
Ano: 1995
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42675

SOCIAL ROLES, HUMAN CAPITAL, AND THE INTRAHOUSEHOLD DIVISION OF LABOR: EVIDENCE FROM PAKISTAN
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Fafchamps,   Marcel; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.
Using detailed data from rural Pakistan, this paper investigates whether human capital, learning by doing, gender, and one's status within the family affect the division of labor within households. Results suggest the presence of returns to individual specialization in all farm, nonfarm, and home-based activities. The intrahousehold division of labor is influenced by comparative advantage, based on human capital and by long-lasting returns to learning by doing, but we also find evidence of a separate effect of gender and family status. Households seem to operate as hierarchies with sexually segregated spheres of activity. The head of household and his or her spouse provide most of the labor within their respective spheres of influence; other members work...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics; Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94514

CONTROL AND OWNERSHIP OF ASSETS WITHIN RURAL ETHIOPIAN HOUSEHOLDS
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Fafchamps,   Marcel; Quisumbing,   Agnes R.
This paper investigates how the control and devolution of productive assets are allocated among husband and wife. Theory predicts that bargaining power within marriage depends on the division of assets upon divorce (exit option) and on control over assets during marriage (noncooperative marriage). In empirical applications, bargaining power is typically proxied by variables such as dowry payments, assets brought to marriage, and ownership of assets within marriage. Using detailed household data from rural Ethiopia, we show that assets brought to marriage, ownership of assets, control within marriage, and disposition upon death or divorce are only partly related (strictly speaking, surveyed households do not “own” land since all agricultural land is legally...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16384