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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 +4 more
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Marriage Premium in Turkey [PDF]
This paper contributes to the literature in three ways. Our first contribution is calculating the marriage premium for Turkey. Our results suggest that married men earn 27 percent more than single men and married women earn 4 percent less than single ...
Mercan, Murat A.
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török +6 more
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Caring for Mom and Neglecting Yourself? The Health Effects of Caring for an Elderly Parent [PDF]
We examine the physical and mental health effects of providing care to an elderly mother on the adult child caregiver. We address the endogeneity of the selection in and out of caregiving using an instrumental variable approach, and carefully control for
Coe, N.B., Van Houtven, C.H.
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Contraceptive practice among married market men in Nigeria
East African Medical Journal, 2004 Until recently, family planning researchers and service providers had focused almost exclusively on women. Men are often seen as uncooperative and uninterested in family planning or reproductive health.To investigate the contraceptive knowledge, attitude and practice among married market men.A cross-sectional survey.llesa Main Market, Osun State ...
Orji, EO, Onwudiegwu, U
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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.Alcohol relapse after liver transplantation is difficult to predict using abstinence duration alone. We developed a multifactor model integrating abstinence duration, psychosocial risk (SIPAT), and socioeconomic context (AUC 0.70). This approach may support individualized risk assessment and tailored follow‐up intensity; external validation is needed ...
Ayato Obana +9 more
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Commercial Sex and Condom Use Among Involuntary Bachelors
American Journal of Men's Health, 2014 In the present context of the Chinese male marriage squeeze , commercial sex is becoming an important way for bachelors to meet their sexual needs. Using data from a survey conducted in a rural district of Anhui province, China, this study analyzes ...
Xueyan Yang PhD +2 more
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Fatter Attraction: Marital Status and the Relationship between BMI and Labor Supply [PDF]
We empirically analyze the labor supply choices of married men and women according to their body size (BMI), using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics on anthropometric characteristics of both spouses, and unmarried men and women as comparison ...
Climent Quintana-Domeque, Sonia Oreffice
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The male marital wage differential: race, training, and fixed effects [PDF]
, 2005 Married white men have higher wages and faster wage growth than unmarried white men. Using the NLSY, we examine whether racial differences in intrahousehold specialization and formal training explain married men's faster wage growth, and individual ...
Rodgers, William M. +1 more
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Food insecurity and unemployment among immigrants in the United States
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Immigrants can be more vulnerable to economic downturns and, during periods of economic hardship, more likely to experience food insecurity compared to natives. This study examines the differential effect of the unemployment rate on the probability of being food insecure among diverse groups of immigrant households relative to natives in the ...
Siwen Zhou +3 more
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