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Women's Off‐Farm Employment and Dietary Quality in Rural Africa

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most households in rural Africa are involved in smallholder farming, but off‐farm employment is an important additional income source for many. Previous research has analysed links between off‐farm employment and well‐being, but mostly at the household level, not considering that household members may be affected differently.
Chrispinus Mutsami, Martin C. Parlasca, Matin Qaim   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Families Choose Sons: Parental Gender Norms and Girls' Education in Ghana. [PDF]

Populations (Basel)
Nartey PB, Nabunya P, Tetteh PM, Ssewamala FM.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Contract Labour, Job Quality and Turnover Intention—Evidence From Nigeria

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Labour contracting, where intermediaries provide farmers with migrant workers, plays a central role in meeting the demand for seasonal labour on labour‐intensive farms. Yet this system poses underresearched challenges for both workers and farmers.
Olayinka Aremu, Patrick Illien, Adeola Oluwafunmiso Olajide, Eva‐Marie Meemken   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

"It is because we women do not have a voice to be heard" - perceptions of gender-based discrimination and its relevance to health: a qualitative study with women in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Tanzania. [PDF]

Int J Equity Health
Struckmann V, Waitzberg R, Orduhan C, Junge LCO, Danso S, Sie A, Binyaruka P, Opoku D, Petifour L, Srivastava S, De Allegri M, Quentin W.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Can prisons move people into better jobs? A look at correctional vocational training programs and sectoral employment outcomes

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Three‐quarters of US prisons offer vocational training programs, which aim to place trainees in middle‐skills jobs in specific occupational sectors post‐release. These middle‐skills jobs may more effectively reduce recidivism than the jobs that normally characterize the labor market experience of the formerly incarcerated, yet whether ...
Britte van Tiem
wiley   +1 more source

Bound by blood and bloodshed: Sibling ties and participation in genocidal violence

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, we examine how sibling relationships—one of the most salient familial bonds—influence individual engagement in violence during mass atrocity. Drawing on an adaptation of differential association and social learning theories for contexts of mass atrocity, we analyze a novel dataset linking over 300,000 ...
Jack G. R. Wippell, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, Jared F. Edgerton, Evelyn Gertz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Low birth weight infants and parental nativity in Singapore: epidemiological paradox in Asia - a nationally representative population-based cohort study. [PDF]

BMJ Public Health
Lu S, Ooi DSQ, Michael N, Lee YS, Yeung WJ.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“Now we don't have that freedom to not work”: Childhood and parenting in insecurity culture

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Allison J. Pugh
wiley   +1 more source

Justice Between Coexisting Generations: Birth Cohorts or Age Groups?

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper will deal with intergenerational justice, focusing on the relationship between coexisting generations. The first section will be reserved for some conceptual clarifications on the concept of justice, on the distinction between age groups and birth cohorts, and on the specificity of age as a category for apportioning benefits and ...
Anna Elisabetta Galeotti
wiley   +1 more source

CEO's Early‐life Experience of Disasters and Corporate Environmental Performance

Abacus, EarlyView.
We investigate the nexus between the early‐life disaster experiences of chief executive officers (CEOs) and their firms’ environmental performance metrics. We hypothesize that first‐hand experience of the adversities of natural disasters in the formative years of a CEO can catalyze a transformation in their environmental cognizance and perspective ...
Shushu Liao, Nhut H. Nguyen, Cameron Truong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source