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Rural Households in a Changing Climate
climate change rural households adaptation risk-coping mechanisms
2012/10/22
This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and ch...
What Determines Religious School Choice? Theory and Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
school choice madrasah education Bangladesh
2012/10/22
This paper looks at the determinants of school selection in rural Bangladesh, focusing on the choice between registered Islamic and non-religious schools. We consider a two period framework where chil...
Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China
migration migrant networks consumption poverty wealth rural China
2012/10/23
In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of households in rural China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant i...
Rural Labor Absorption Efficiency in Urban Areas under Different Urbanization Patterns and Industrial Structures: The Case of China
rural labor absorption in urban areas urbanization industry structure DEA
2012/10/18
In this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate how well China’s urban areas absorb migrant workers under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-...
Got Water? Social Divisions and Access to Public Goods in Rural India
public goods social fragmentation water public policy India
2012/10/23
We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. St...
Intergenerational Wealth Mobility in Rural Bangladesh
intergenerational inequality household wealth occupational mobility schooling mobility transition matrix Bangladesh
2012/10/24
Unique residential history data with retrospective information on parental assets are used to study household wealth mobility in 141 villages in rural Bangladesh. Regression estimates of father-son co...
Self-Employment of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
self-employment wages rural to urban migration selection bias magnets European Union
2012/10/26
This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose s...
Poisoning the Mind: Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water Wells and Children's Educational Achievement in Rural Bangladesh
drinking water pollution Madrasa subjective well-being Bangladesh
2012/10/30
Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater with naturally occurring inorganic arsenic. Prolonged drinking of such water risk...
As their environment changes, migrants constitute an interesting group to study the effect of relative income on subjective well-being. This paper focuses on the huge population of rural-to-urban migr...
Evolution of the Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Labor Market from 2002 to 2007
rural-urban migration labor market wage structure migration decision segmentation, China
2012/11/2
The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data sets. Our focus is on the rural-urban migration decision, the wage structure of mi...
Social-Family Network and Self-Employment: Evidence from Temporary Rural-Urban Migrants in China
social-family network self-employment rural-urban migrants
2012/11/1
We hypothesize that individuals with a larger social-family network are more likely to choose self-employment. We test this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size o...
Rural Wages and Returns to Education:Differences Between Whites, Blacks, and American Indians
Rural Wages Education
2009/11/5
This paper's contribution to the literature is two-fold. First, it broadens the existing evidence regarding rural workers by focussing on racial and gender differences. Second, it provides new evidenc...
Labor Market Emergence and Returns to Education in Rural China
Labor Market Emergence Returns to Education Rural China
2014/3/13
This paper examines the emergence of labour markets in China through the lens of returns to rural education. It demonstrates that methodology plays an important role in explaining the low estimates of...