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| Stycos, J. Mayone; Duarte, Isis. |
| A survey of 139 men and 123 women in four communities bordering Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic took place in late 1992. The survey followed a presidential decree ordering the army to clear the forest of people and cattle and to resettle a number of villages. The survey found that people admitted using the forest for firewood and cash crop cultivation. However, they were aware of the need to conserve the forest and expressed willingness to compromise on its use. They were less aware of park boundaries and did not understand the concept of a national park. Villagers welcomed rapid population growth, and women favor (and have) large families despite high rates of sterilization. Nearly everyone opposed resettlement and favored... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Attitudes; Behavior; Gender; Knowledge; Park; Population; Resettlement; Survey; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 1994 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11883 |
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| McCarthy, Nancy; Sun, Yan. |
| The paper evaluates the household- and community-level factors influencing women’s and men’s decisions to participate in off-farm activities, either in the off-farm labor market or in local community groups, and the relationship with on-farm crop returns. Results reveals female participation in off-farm labor markets increases at higher levels of labor availability, and female on-farm work and group participation are complementary activities. Results also indicate that male labor is relatively more productive on-farm versus off-farm than female labor. Finally, the study shows that education increases the likelihood for both women and men to work off-farm, although the impact is greater for women. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Off-farm labor supply; Participation; Community groups; Gender; Labor and Human Capital; J22; Q12. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51040 |
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| Yamauchi, Futoshi; Buthelezi, Thabani; Velia, Myriam. |
| 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 excess mortality due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. We find, first, that deaths of prime-age adults significantly increase both male and female adolescents’ labor force participation because they stop their schooling in order to help support their families. Female school enrollment may also decrease because girls are required to stay at home to take care of the sick. Therefore, the total negative impact on schooling is larger among female adolescents than among male adolescents.... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Prime-age adult mortality; Schooling; Labor supply; Gender; South Africa; Health Economics and Policy; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55893 |
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| Padmanabhan, Martina Aruna. |
| Collective action aims at the joint management of common pool resources. Agrobiodiversity at the community level is conceptualized as a collective resource requiring the management of varieties, species and their interrelations within a farming-system. In the rice dominated agriculture in the uplands of Kerala, India, few community groups continue maintaining and thus conserving their high diversity in landraces. Faced with the challenges of devastating prices for rice, their traditional system of collective action to exchange seed material and knowledge is endangered. A new institutional mechanism to manage biodiversity is the People’s Biodiversity Register, a mandatory documentation procedure to enable cost and benefit sharing under the Convention on... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Gender; India; Agrobiodiversity; Institutions; Trust; Reciprocity; Reputation; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42508 |
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| 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 |
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| Magalhaes, Reginaldo Sales. |
| The strengthening of social organizations that made it possible for dairy production to become a market-driven activity has brought about deep changes in the sexual division of labour. The sociological analysis of the changes in family-farming intra-household roles shows that cultural traditions, gender-related power gaps, and social contexts that further deepen differences in market access between men and women are the social and cultural foundations of a hierarchy structured according to sex and generation, where women, especially the youngest, occupy greatly disadvantageous positions. With the strengthening of cooperatives, dairy production began to occupy a rather important role in providing resources to the household, yet the control over the activity... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Gender; Markets; Economic sociology.; Agribusiness; Z1; Z13. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/60822 |
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| 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 |
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| Lodhi, Abdul Salam; Tsegai, Daniel W.; Gerber, Nicolas. |
| Using data from Pakistan, this study analyzed the effect of various individual, household, and community level characteristics on the probability that children engage in different activities. According to the existing trend of their prevalence, we considered five child’s activities, namely: secular schooling; religious education; child labor; a combination of child labor and secular schooling; and inactivity (including leisure). Data was collected through field surveys conducted in over 40 villages in four Pakistani provinces: Balochistan, Khyber Paktunkhwa, Punjab, and Sind. A total of 963 households were interviewed on the activities of 2,496 children. Multinomial Probit model was used for the analyses. Results indicated that parental perception had... |
| Tipo: Working Paper |
Palavras-chave: Child productivity; Child’s activities; Parental perception; Gender; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Labor and Human Capital; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119110 |
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| Twyman, Jennifer; Deere, Carmen Diana. |
| This study conducts a gender analysis of homeownership in Ecuador, drawing upon data collected through the nationally-representative 2010 Ecuador Household Asset Survey carried out by the authors. The survey collected data on asset ownership both at the household and individual levels. This allows us to overcome a typical problem faced by gender analyses, that of only having the sex of the household head and not the sex of the owner(s). The study explores gender differences in homeownership and housing wealth. There is fairly equal distribution of homeownership and housing wealth, which is not all that surprising given the partial community property marital regime. Any property purchased during marriage or while in a consensual union is considered... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Homeownership; Gender; Marital regime; Partial community property rights; Ecuador; International Development. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103860 |
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| Pandolfelli, Lauren; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Dohrn, Stephan. |
| This paper presents a framework for investigating the intersection of collective action and gender; i.e. how gender-oriented analysis can foster more effective collective action in the context of agriculture and natural resource management and how collective action can be used as a vehicle for gender equity. We begin with definitions of the key concepts and then present three entry points for a gendered analysis of collective action-motivations, effectiveness, and impact on gender equity- vis-à-vis the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework (Oakerson 1992; Ostrom 1991). At the heart of this framework is the action arena, which is shaped by a host of initial conditions, including asset endowments, vulnerabilities, and legal and governance... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Gender; Collective action; Motivation; Effectiveness; Impact; Action resources; Institutional change. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/47667 |
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| Sun, Yan; Mwangi, Esther; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela. |
| Women’s participation in decision making at the user-group level and in forest committees has been demonstrated to have a positive impact on forest sustainability. For example, women’s participation enhances forest regeneration and reduces illegal harvesting through improved monitoring. Their presence in forest user groups increases the groups’ capacity to manage and resolve conflict, which in turn increases the likelihood that resource users will comply with and respect harvesting and use rules. These insights have been especially useful in informing policy and project interventions designed to strength and amplify women’s participation. This paper adopts a cross-national approach and employs quantitative techniques to analyze the relative... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Gender; Forest management; Forest user groups; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q01; Q23; J16. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103456 |
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