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Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China [PDF]

China's household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-saving profile has become U-shaped. Using a panel of urban Chinese households covering 1989-2006, we document a sharp increase in income uncertainty. While the permanent
Chamon, Marcos, Liu, Kai, Prasad, Eswar
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Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah, Habtamu Alem, Abdulai Adams, Tomáš Ratinger, Miroslava Bavorová   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Socioeconomic disparities in IDH-wildtype glioblastoma survival: interactions between age and household income in a SEER cohort. [PDF]

J Neurooncol
Wang Y, Xie K, Yang K, Luo A, Zhang L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Inequality and Growth in Rural China: Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth? [PDF]

We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial inequality is ...
Dwayne Benjamin, John Giles, Loren Brandt   +2 more
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Precarious employment and mental health: the moderating role of household income and family type in Sweden. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Kvart S, Mangot-Sala L, Aronsson A, Badarin K, Bosmans K, Gunn V, Johansson G, Julià M, Kreshpaj B, Matilla-Santander N, Mendez-Rivero F, Thern E, Östergren PO, Bodin T.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Impacts of Health and Environmental Information Nudges on Meat Choices: Where Does Goat Meat Fit?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amidst a recent surge in US goat meat imports to meet growing demand, this study contributes to the meat demand literature by examining consumer preferences for goat meat, a relatively healthy and environmentally friendly alternative to other popular meats.
Binod Khanal, Sunil P. Dhoubhadel, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Associations of household income and parental education with early childhood caries: the Japan Environment and Children's Study. [PDF]

Environ Health Prev Med
Kaneko F, Yamada E, Miyazaki J, Ikehara S, Kawasaki R, Iso H, Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) Group.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Income Distribution and Poverty in a CGE Framework: A Proposed Methodology [PDF]

The paper discusses methodologies addressing income distribution and poverty in a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model framework, by describing how to link CGE results with household survey data to analyze income distribution and poverty ...
Sothea OUM
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Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang, Edward C. Jaenicke, Martina Vecchi, Sheng‐Jang Sheu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source