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ADULT HEALTH IN THE TIME OF DROUGHT
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Hoddinott,   John; Kinsey,   Bill.
This paper examines the impact of rainfall shocks on a measure of adult health, body mass, drawing on a unique panel data set of households residing in rural Zimbabwe. Controlling for individual, household, and community factors, and individual fixed, unobservable effects, we find women, but not men, are adversely affected by drought. However, these effects are not borne equally by all women. Women residing in poor households and daughters more generally appear to bear the brunt of this shock. Our results suggest that an ex ante private coping strategy, the accumulation of livestock, protects women against the adverse consequences of this shock. By contrast, we find that ex post public responses are not effective, though for several reasons we treat this...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Health Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16431

AJAE Appendix: Is There Persistence in the Impact of Emergency Food Aid? Evidence on Consumption, Food Security and Assets in Rural Ethiopia
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Gilligan,   Daniel O.; Hoddinott,   John.
The material contained herein is supplementary to the article named in the title and published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, May 2007, Volume 89, Issue 2.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7414

AN EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF PROGRESA ON PRE-SCHOOL CHILD HEIGHT
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Behrman,   Jere R.; Hoddinott,   John.
The nutrition of preschool children is of considerable interest not only because of concern over their immediate welfare, but also because their nutrition in this formative stage of life is widely perceived to have substantial persistent impact on their physical and mental development and on their health status as adults. Children’s physical and mental development shapes their later lives by affecting their schooling success and post-schooling productivity. Improving the nutritional status of currently malnourished preschoolers may, therefore, have important payoffs over the long term. Within rural Mexico, stunting, or short height relative to standards established for healthy populations, is the major form of protein-energy malnutrition (PEM). Low weight...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16387

AN EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF PROGRESA ON PRE-SCHOOL CHILD HEIGHT
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Behrman,   Jere R.; Hoddinott,   John.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15917

ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF HGH-YIELDING VARIETIES OF MAIZE IN RESETTLEMENT AREAS OF ZIMBABWE
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Bourdillon,   Michael; Hebinck,   Paul; Hoddinott,   John; Kinsey,   Bill; Marondo,   John; Mudege,   Netsayi; Owens,   Trudy.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15930

ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF HIGH-YIELDING VARIETIES OF MAIZE IN RESETTLEMENT AREAS OF ZIMBABWE
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Bourdillon,   Michael; Hebinck,   Paul; Hoddinott,   John; Kinsey,   Bill; Marondo,   John; Mudege,   Netsayi; Owens,   Trudy.
This study is part of a larger effort to explore the impact of agricultural research on poverty reduction. It examines the diffusion and impact of hybrid maize in selected resettlement areas of rural Zimbabwe, paying particular attention to varieties made widely available from the mid-1990s onwards. While “Zimbabwe’s Green Revolution” of the early 1980s was characterized by the widespread adoption of hybrid maize varieties and significant increases in yields, the subsequent diffusion of newer varieties occurred more slowly and had a more modest impact. Several factors account for this. Government now plays a much-reduced role and one that increasingly focuses on “better farmers.” Private-sector institutions that have entered the maize sector operate mainly...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Poverty; Agricultural research; Sustainable livelihoods; Vulnerability; Agricultural extension; Social capital; Hybrid maize; Zimbabwe; Crop Production/Industries.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16407

Collective Action and Vulnerability: Burial Societies in Rural Ethiopia
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Dercon,   Stefan; Hoddinott,   John; Krishnan,   Pramila; Woldehanna,   Tassew.
Collective action can help individuals, groups, and communities achieve common goals, thus contributing to poverty reduction. Drawing on longitudinal household and qualitative community data, the authors examine the impact of shocks on household living standards, study the correlates of participation in groups and formal and informal networks, and discuss the relationship of networks with access to other forms of capital. In this context, they assess how one form of collective action, iddir, or burial societies, help households attenuate the impact of illness. They find that iddir effectively deal with problems of asymmetric information by restricting membership geographically, imposing a membership fee, and conducting checks on how the funds were spent....
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Collective action; Burial societies; Shocks; Vulnerability; Poverty; Networks; Ethiopia; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44356

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

COMPARING VILLAGE CHARACTERISTICS DERIVED FROM RAPID APPRAISALS AND HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS: A TALE FROM NORTHERN MALI
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Christiaensen,   Luc J.M.; Hoddinott,   John; Bergeron,   Gilles.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15944

COMPARING VILLAGE CHARACTERISTICS DERIVED FROM RAPID APPRAISALS AND HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS: A TALE FROM NORTHERN MALI
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Christiaensen,   Luc J.M.; Hoddinott,   John; Bergeron,   Gilles.
This paper investigates whether inferences drawn about a population are sensitive to the manner by which those data are obtained. It compares information obtained using participatory appraisal techniques with a survey of households randomly drawn from a locally administered census that had been carefully revised. The community map tends to include household members who do not, in fact, reside in the enumerated locality. By contrast, the revised official census is slightly more likely to exclude household members who actually lived in the surveyed area. Controlling for the survey technique, we find that the revised official census produces higher estimates of average household size and wealth but lower estimates of total village size or wealth, than the...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16453

CONSUMPTION SMOOTHING AND VULNERABILITY IN THE ZONE LACUSTRE, MALI
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Harrower,   Sarah; Hoddinott,   John.
This paper explores risk sharing in the Zone Lacustre, Mali, as viewed through the lens of consumption smoothing. We find that idiosyncratic shocks appear to have little impact on consumption, and that households respond to these shocks in a variety of ways. In general, nonpoor households are more likely to enter into new income-generating activities while poor households are more likely to engage in credit or gift exchange or to ration consumption. When we construct a stronger test for consumption smoothing, we find that changes in household income lead to modest changes in consumption. Covariant shocks, as measured by village/round dummies, always lead to changes in consumption. These results are robust to concerns regarding bias resulting from...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16396

CONSUMPTION SMOOTHING AND VULNERABILITY IN THE ZONE LACUSTRE, MALI
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Harrower,   Sarah; Hoddinott,   John.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15962

DIETARY DIVERSITY AS A FOOD SECURITY INDICATOR
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Hoddinott,   John; Yohannes,   Yisehac.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15972

DIETARY DIVERSITY AS A FOOD SECURITY INDICATOR
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Hoddinott,   John; Yohannes,   Yisehac.
Household food security is an important measure of well-being. Although it may not encapsulate all dimensions of poverty, the inability of households to obtain access to enough food for an active, healthy life is surely an important component of their poverty. Accordingly, devising an appropriate measure of food security outcomes is useful in order to identify the food insecure, assess the severity of their food shortfall, characterize the nature of their insecurity (for example, seasonal versus chronic), predict who is most at risk of future hunger, monitor changes in circumstances, and assess the impact of interventions. However, obtaining detailed data on food security status—such as 24-hour recall data on caloric intakes—can be time consuming and...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16474

Dynamic intrahousehold bargaining, matrimonial property law and suicide in Canada
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Adam,   Christopher; Hoddinott,   John; Ligon,   Ethan.
This paper develops a dynamic model of household bargaining and uses it to motivate an empirical analysis of the impact changes in Canadian laws regarding the allocation of family assets upon divorce on female suicide. Using time series data, we show that in Ontario, the passage of Canadian legislation that improved women's rights to assets upon divorce was associated with reductions in the rate of female suicide amongst older (married) women while not affecting younger (unmarried) women. As suggested by our model, its impact was asymmetric in that male suicide rates were unaffected by this change. We also exploited a quasi-natural experiment in these data, namely that no comparable legislative  change occurred in Quebec. Here, we do not observe a...
Tipo: Working Paper
Palavras-chave: Intrahousehold; Bargaining; Divorce; Suicide; Canada; Community/Rural/Urban Development; D10; J12.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/120422

Gender Differentials in Farm Productivity: Implications For Household Efficiency and Agricultural Policy
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Alderman,   Harold; Hoddinott,   John; Haddad,   Lawrence James; Udry,   Christopher R.
Within many African households, agricultural production is simultaneously carried out on many plots controlled by different members of the household. Detailed plot-level agronomic data from Burkina Faso provides striking evidence of inefficiencies in the allocation of factors of production across the plots controlled by different members of the household. Production function estimates imply that the value of household output could be increased by 10 to 20 percent by reallocating currently-used factors of production across plots. This finding contradicts standard models of agricultural households. A richer model of behavior, which recognizes that the individuals who comprise a household compete as well as cooperate, has important implications for the...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital; Productivity Analysis.
Ano: 1995
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42677

High food prices: The what, who, and how of proposed policy actions
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: von Braun,   Joachim; Ahmed,   Akhter U.; Asenso-Okyere,   Kwadwo; Fan,   Shenggen; Gulati,   Ashok; Hoddinott,   John; Pandya-Lorch,   Rajul; Rosegrant,   Mark W.; Ruel,   Marie T.; Torero,   Maximo; van Rheenen,   Teunis; von Grebmer,   Klaus.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48293

Improving Child Nutrition for Sustainable Poverty Reduction in Africa
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Alderman,   Harold; Behrman,   Jere R.; Hoddinott,   John.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/45776

Investing in early childhood nutrition
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Ruel,   Marie T.; Hoddinott,   John.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48929

Is There Persistence in the Impact of Emergency Food Aid? Evidence on Consumption, Food Security, and Assets in Rural Ethiopia
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Gilligan,   Daniel O.; Hoddinott,   John.
The primary goal of emergency food aid after an economic shock is often to bolster short-term food and nutrition security. However, these transfers also act as insurance against other shock effects, such as destruction of assets and changes in economic activity, which can have lasting deleterious consequences. Although existing research provides some evidence of small positive impacts of timely food aid disbursements after a shock on current food consumption and aggregate consumption, little is known about whether these transfers play a safety net role by reducing vulnerability and protecting assets into the future. We investigate this issue by exploring the presence of persistent impacts of two major food aid programs following the 2002 drought in...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food aid; Treatment effects; Propensity score matching; Ethiopia; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55895

Livelihoods, Growth, and Links to Market Towns in 15 Ethiopian Villages
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Dercon,   Stefan; Hoddinott,   John.
Rural and urban spaces are usually regarded as “separate” in both development theory and practice. Yet there are myriad links between them. Urban areas, including regional urban centers such as local market towns, provide households with new opportunities to sell goods and services. These opportunities increase household income by employing previously unemployed household resources or because households reallocate household resources so as to take advantage of new, more profitable activities. Links to market towns improve the prices received by rural households because households can benefit from increased demand for their goods or because the larger market is better able to absorb production from rural areas without causing prices to decline. These links...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Livelihoods; Transport; Poverty; Rural-urban linkages; Ethiopia; International Development; Marketing.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59596

LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES OF EARLY CHILDHOOD MALNUTRITION
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Alderman,   Harold; Hoddinott,   John; Kinsey,   Bill.
This paper examines the impact of preschool malnutrition on subsequent human capital formation in rural Zimbabwe using a maternal fixed effects-instrumental variables (MFE-IV) estimator with a long-term panel data set. Representations of civil war and drought "shocks" are used to identify differences in preschool nutritional status across siblings. Improvements in height-for-age in preschoolers are associated with increased height as a young adult and number of grades of schooling completed. Had the median preschool child in this sample had the stature of a median child in a developed country, by adolescence, she would be 4.6 centimeters taller and would have completed an additional 0.7 grades of schooling.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16436

Must Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Be Conditioned to Be Effective?: The Impact of Conditioning Transfers on School Enrollment In Mexico
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: de Brauw,   Alan; Hoddinott,   John.
A growing body of evidence suggests that conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs can have strong, positive effects on a range of welfare indicators for poor households in developing countries. However, the contribution of individual program components toward achieving these outcomes is not well understood. This paper contributes to filling this gap by explicitly testing the importance of conditionality on one specific outcome related to human capital formation (namely school enrollment), using data collected during the evaluation of Mexico’s Programa de Educación, Salud, y Alimentación (PROGRESA) CCT program. We exploit the fact that some PROGRESA beneficiaries who received transfers did not receive the forms needed to monitor their children’s attendance...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Conditionality; Cash transfers; School enrollment; School attendance; PROGRESA; Mexico; Community/Rural/Urban Development.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42814

PARTICIPATION AND POVERTY REDUCTION: ISSUES, THEORY, AND NEW EVIDENCE FROM SOUTH AFRICA
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Hoddinott,   John; Adato,   Michelle; Besley,   Timothy; Haddad,   Lawrence James.
This paper examines the relationship between community participation and the efficacy of interventions designed to reduce poverty. We develop some simple analytics that are used to structure a review of the extant literature and motivate the analysis of the impact of participation on the efficacy of public works interventions in South Africa. These analytics suggest that because communities possess informational advantages unavailable to outsiders, community participation offers the prospect of lowering the cost of antipoverty interventions. In cases where the outcomes of interventions are difficult to measure, community participation is attractive because it is more likely to produce a set of outcomes actually desired by the community. However, this...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16457

PARTICIPATION AND POVERTY REDUCTION: ISSUES, THEORY, AND NEW EVIDENCE FROM SOUTH AFRICA
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Hoddinott,   John; Adato,   Michelle; Besley,   Timothy; Haddad,   Lawrence James.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15973

Power, Politics, and Performance: Community Participation in South African Public Works Programs
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Adato,   Michelle; Hoddinott,   John; Haddad,   Lawrence James.
Community-driven development is indelible in the development landscape. It is increasingly visible in the policy design of many governments, nongovernmental organizations, and multilateral institutions and features in important debates involving democracy, governance, institutions, and decentralization. As this research report points out, this has philosophical and instrumentalist underpinnings, with participation as both means and end. Participatory or community-driven development is advocated on the basis that, among other advantages, it can reduce information problems for development planners and beneficiaries, increase the resources available to poor people, and strengthen the capacity for collective action among poor and other marginalized societal...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Public works; South Africa; Community development; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Public Economics.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37887

Renegotiating the Food Aid Convention: Background, Context, and Issues
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Hoddinott,   John; Cohen,   Marc J.
The current global agreement governing food aid—the Food Aid Convention (FAC)—will expire in 2007. It has come under heavy criticism as has the diffuse set of broader food aid governance institutions that has emerged in the last 50 years. These institutions are characterized by overlapping mandates, differing degrees of authority and legitimacy, varied levels of transparency in decision-making, and problematic representation of the major stakeholders. A number of issues are likely to arise during the course of negotiations over a new FAC. These include its objectives; the nature of commitments— whether to express them in tonnage, value, or nutritional terms; the level of commitments and their distribution among donor countries; monitoring and enforcement...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food aid; International agreements; International organizations; Humanitarian assistance; Human rights; Local purchase; Triangular transaction; Development assistance; Trade agreements; Grain trade; Code of conduct; Needs assessment; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42424

Social Protection: Opportunities for Africa.
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Adato,   Michelle; Hoddinott,   John.
Social protection involves policies and programs that protect people against risk and vulnerability, mitigate the impacts of shocks, and support people who suffer from chronic incapacities to secure basic livelihoods. It can also build assets, reducing both short-term and intergenerational transmission of poverty. It includes social insurance (such as health, life, and asset insurance, which may involve contributions from employers and/or beneficiaries); social assistance (mainly cash, food, vouchers, or subsidies); and services (such as maternal and child health and nutrition programs). Interventions that provide training and credit for income-generating activities also have a social protection component. Interest in social protection is growing across...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: AFRICA; Social protection; Poverty reduction; Hunger; Cash transfers; Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46013

TARGETING OUTCOME REDUX
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Coady,   David P.; Grosh,   Margaret; Hoddinott,   John.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics; International Development.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15924

TARGETING OUTCOMES REDUX
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Coady,   David P.; Grosh,   Margaret; Hoddinott,   John.
This paper addresses the contested issue of the efficacy of targeting interventions in developing countries using a newly constructed comprehensive database of 111 targeted antipoverty interventions in 47 countries. While the median program transfers 25 percent more to the target group than would be the case with a universal allocation, more than a quarter of targeted programs are regressive. Countries with higher income or governance measures, and countries with better measures for voice do better at directing benefits toward poorer members of the population. Interventions that use means testing, geographic targeting, and self-selection based on a work requirement are all associated with an increased share of benefits going to the bottom two quintiles....
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16434

TESTING NASH-BARGAINING HOUSEHOLD MODELS WITH TIME-SERIES DATA
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Hoddinott,   John; Adam,   Christopher.
This paper uses a “natural experiment” in Canadian divorce law reform to discriminate empirically between unitary and Nash-bargained models of the household. Using time-series data from three Canadian provinces, it demonstrates that following landmark divorce law reforms in the 1970s—reforms that led to improvements in women's expected settlement upon divorce in Ontario and British Columbia, suicide rates for older, married women in these provinces registered a sharp decline. Similar declines were not registered for younger, unmarried women or men in Ontario and British Columbia, nor for older, married women in Quebec, where the legal basis for divorce did not change. These results are consistent with Nash-bargained models of the household but not with the...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics.
Ano: 1998
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94858

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

The Impact of Changes in Common Property Resource Management on Intrahousehold Allocation
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Maggs,   Philip; Hoddinott,   John.
In developing countries, common property resources (CPRs) can be an important source of income for certain individuals within households. This paper demonstrates that if a change in the management of CPRs imposes costs on these individuals, or causes a decline in the prices or productivities associated with goods produced from the CPRs, the intrahousehold allocation of resources may alter in a manner detrimental to those individuals. The paper also shows that the assumption of a unitary household model causes the detrimental effects of certain CPR policy interventions to be overlooked.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 1997
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42663

THE IMPACT OF PROGRESA ON CONSUMPTION: A FINAL REPORT
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Hoddinott,   John; Skoufias,   Emmanuel; Washburn,   Ryan.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; International Development.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16023

THE IMPACT OF PROGRESA ON FOOD CONSUMPTION
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Hoddinott,   John; Skoufias,   Emmanuel.
As exemplified by the Millennium Declaration of the United Nations, the reduction of poverty and hunger are now seen as central objectives of international development. Yet the modalities for attaining these goals are contested. Further, while it might be assumed that interventions that alleviate poverty will automatically reduce hunger, a number of studies of the relationship between income and the acquisition of food suggest that this assumption may be incorrect.  This paper contributes to this debate through an analysis of a Mexican antipoverty program called PROGRESA (the Programa de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion). PROGRESA provides cash transfers linked to children’s enrollment and regular school attendance and to clinic attendance. By 2000, it...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16464

THE IMPACT OF PROGRESA ON FOOD CONSUMPTION
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Hoddinott,   John; Skoufias,   Emmanuel.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15957

VALIDITY OF RAPID ESTIMATES OF HOUSEHOLD WEALTH AND INCOME FOR HEALTH SURVEYS IN RURAL AFRICA
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Morris,   Saul Sutkover; Carletto,   Calogero; Hoddinott,   John; Christiaensen,   Luc J.M.
Drawing data from four different integrated household surveys in rural areas of Mali, Malawi, and two national surveys in Côte d’Ivoire, this paper tests the validity of proxy measures of household wealth and income that can be readily implemented in health surveys in rural Africa. The assumptions underlying the choice of wealth proxy are described, and correlations with the true value are assessed in two different settings. The expenditure proxy is developed and then tested for replicability in two independent data sets representing the same population. The study found that in both Mali and Malawi, the wealth proxy correlated highly (r $ 0.74) with the more complex monetary value method. For rural areas of Côte d’Ivoire, it was possible to generate a list...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94850

Water, Health, Income: A Review
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Hoddinott,   John.
This paper examines the impact of improved water access on health and incomes in the developing world, drawing on contributions from public health, economics, and anthropology. It argues that the "biological" pathways are reasonably well understood, with the effectiveness of interventions being ordered in the following way: improved household sanitation and hygiene practices; improvements in both quality and quantity of water supplies; increased quantity of water consumed and better water quality. However, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts; knowledge of hygienic practices plus improvements in sanitation plus use of greater quantities of water tend to lead to the largest improvements in health. By contrast, the "economic" pathways are less well...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Health Economics and Policy; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 1997
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42660