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Of bulls and bulbs: aspirations, opinions and perceptions of rural adolescents and youth in Zambia
Daum, Thomas (2018-07)In Africa, policymakers and development practitioners focus heavily on making farming more attractive for the youth. To reach this goal, different actions are proposed, often emphasising the need for modern technology. ... -
Of Trackers and Tractors. Using a Smartphone App and Compositional Data Analysis to Explore the Link Between Mechanization and Intra-Household Allocation of Time in Zambia
Daum, Thomas; Capezzone, Filippo; Birner, Regina (2019-05)Digital tools may help to study socioeconomic aspects of agricultural development that are difficult to measure such as the effects of new technologies, policies and practices on the intra-household allocation of time. As ... -
Off the Grid: Environmental Degradation and Citizenship at the Margins
Harms, Arne (2015-05)In this paper I have presented some preliminary thoughts on political repercussions of environmental degradations on the margins. In order to do that I have embraced two approaches derived from political theory. First, I ... -
On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress
Stark, Oded (2023-04)Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have sought to identify and implement policies aimed at tackling this social ill. A frequently prescribed ... -
On social preferences and the intensity of risk aversion
Stark, Oded (2018-05)We study the relative risk aversion of an individual with particular social preferences: his wellbeing is influenced by his relative wealth, and by how concerned he is about having low relative wealth. Holding constant the ... -
On structural change, the social stress of a farming population, and the political economy of farm support
Stark, Oded; Fałkowski, Jan (2018-05)A rationale for providing support to the farm sector in the course of economic development and structural change is a growing gap between the incomes of non-agricultural workers and the incomes of farmers. Drawing on a ... -
On the economics of others
Stark, Oded (2014-03)We relate to others in two important ways: we care about others, and we care about how we fare in comparison to others. In some contexts, these two forms of relatedness interact. Caring about others can conveniently be ... -
On the evolutionary edge of migration as an assortative mating device
Stark, Oded; Behrens, Doris A.; Wang, Yong (2008-02)In a haystack-type representation of a heterogeneous population that is evolving according to a payoff structure of a prisoner’s dilemma game, migration is modeled as a process of “swapping” individuals between heterogeneous ... -
On the formation of international migration policies when no country has an exclusive policy-setting say
Stark, Oded; Casarico, Alessandra; Devillanova, Carlo; Uebelmesser, Silke (2011-10)This paper identifies the migration policies that emerge when both the sending country and the receiving country wield power to set migration quotas, when controlling migration is costly, and when the decision how much ... -
On the optimal size of a joint savings association
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor; Jakubek, Marcin; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz (2022-05)We develop a formula for the optimal size of a joint savings association between individuals who share the same financial goal and who can save towards that goal at the same rate. Our motivating example and the core of our ... -
On the precarious link between the Gini coefficient and the incentive to migrate
Stark, Oded; Byra, Lukasz; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz (2020-02)We offer an explanation for the inconclusive results of empirical studies into the relationship between the magnitude of the Gini coefficient of income distribution at origin and the intensity of migration. Bearing in mind ... -
On the taxing of migrants’ earnings while retaining a migrant workforce
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor (2018-07)We study policies that are aimed at retaining a migrant workforce in a Gulf State while introducing a tax on migrant earnings. We single out Qatar as a case study. We consider two types of migrants: target migrants, and ... -
On the train to brain gain in rural China
Zhang, Yi; Matz, Julia Anna (2017-01)This study investigates the well-researched relationship between migration and the formation of human capital in the source region using a novel instrument: the existence of a local train station. We make use of Chinese ... -
On the use of agricultural system models for exploring technological innovations across scales in Africa: A critical review
Rötter, Reimund P.; Sehomi, Fanou L.; Höhn, Jukka G.; Niemi, Jarkko K.; van den Berg, Marrit (2016-07)The major challenge of the 21st century is to achieve food security under, roughly, a doubling in food demand by 2050 compared to present, and producing the additional food under marked shifts in climatic risks and with ... -
One-off subsidies and long-run adoption: Experimental evidence on improved cooking stoves in Senegal Bonn
Bensch, Gunther; Peters, Jörg (2017-04)Free distribution of a technology can be an effective development policy instrument if its adoption is socially inefficient and hampered by affordability constraints. Improved cookstoves may be such a case: they generate ... -
An optimal allocation of asylum seekers
Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz (2024-02)We formulate a rule for allocating asylum seekers that is based on the social preferences of the native workers of the receiving countries. To derive the rule, we construct for each country a social welfare function, SWF, ... -
Optimization of land and resource use at farm-aggregated level in the Aral Sea Basin of Uzbekistan with the integrated model FLEOM: model description and first application
Sommer, Rolf; Djanibekov, Nodir; Salaev, Omonbek (2010-07)Land use and crop production in the Khorezm region in western Uzbekistan, exemplarily for the irrigated low-lands of Central Asia, is adversely affected by the excessive, non-sustainable use of irrigation water on one hand, ... -
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Paradigmen der Pandemiebekämpfung und ihre Öffentlichkeit
Berger, Pascal (2023-12)Der im März 2020 in der Bundesrepublik wie in anderen Staaten erlassene Lockdown stellt eine bis heute eher selten thematisierte Abweichung von den bis dahin vorliegenden Pandemieplanungen dar. Mit den Lockdowns setzte ... -
Parental gender stereotypes and student wellbeing in China
Chu, Shuai; Zeng, Xiangquan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. (2020-11)Non-cognitive abilities are supposed to affect students’ educational performance, who are challenged by parental expectations and norms. Using standard econometric techniques, parental gender stereotypes are shown to ...