Zentrale wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen: Recent submissions
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The global cropland footprint of the non-food bioeconomy
(2018-04)A rapidly growing share of global agricultural areas is devoted to the production of biomass for non-food purposes. The derived products include, for example, biofuels, textiles, detergents or cosmetics. Given the far-reaching ... -
Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences: A large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh
(2018-03)Economic preferences – like time, risk and social preferences – have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the ... -
Gender differentiation in intergenerational care-giving and migration choices
(2018-03)We weave together care-giving, gender, and migration. We hypothesize that daughters who are mothers have a stronger incentive than sons who are fathers to demonstrate to their children the appropriate way of caring for ... -
Effects of food price spikes on household welfare in Nigeria
(2018-02)The dramatic global food price upsurges of 2007/2008 and the resurgence of 2010/2011 have kept the welfare effects of food price shocks at the epicentre of policy discussions worldwide. Studies have found heterogeneous ... -
An egg for an egg and a bean for a bean?: How production diversity determines dietary diversity of smallholder farmers in rural India
(2018-01)On-farm production diversity of smallholder farmers can improve the nutrition security of the household. The objective is to determine the significance and relevance of this relationship by considering the different degrees ... -
How much do infrastructural investments mitigate impacts of seasonal shocks on food security?
(2019-12)Ending extreme hunger requires the interaction of both household and community level infrastructural investments. When communities and households are capital infrastructure constrained, the effects of extreme events such ... -
The social preferences of the native inhabitants, and the decision how many asylum seekers to admit
(2019-12)We consider a tax-funded policy of admitting and integrating asylum seekers in a country in which the incomes of the native inhabitants are differentiated; for the sake of simplicity, we assume that there are just two ... -
Choice without consciousness: Women’s Participation in Household Decisions and Gender Equality in Children’s Education
(2019)In this paper, we test if households where women participate in decisions regarding children’s education and allocation of household education budgets incur more equal expenditures on education of boys and girls. Moreover, ... -
Migrating for children’s better future: Intergenerational Mobility of Internal Migrants’ Children in Indonesia
(2019-12)Internal migration dominates population mobility in Indonesia; according to the 2010 census, there were almost 30 million permanent migrants, around 12.5 percent of the population. The effects of this internal migration ... -
Relative deprivation as a cause of risky behaviors
(2019-11)Combining a standard measure of concern about low relative wealth and a standard measure of relative risk aversion leads to a novel explanation of variation in risk-taking behavior identified and documented by social ... -
Pure rank preferences and variation in risk-taking behavior
(2019-11)Assuming that an individual’s rank in the wealth distribution is the only factor determining the individual’s wellbeing, we analyze the individual’s risk preferences in relation to gaining or losing rank, rather than the ... -
An economics-based rationale for the Rawlsian social welfare program
(2020-10)We show that a social planner who seeks to allocate a given sum in order to reduce efficiently the social stress of a population, as measured by the aggregate relative deprivation of the population, pursues a disbursement ... -
Water, sanitation and agriculture linkages with health and nutrition improvement
(2019-09)In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly recognized access to safe water and sanitation infrastructure a matter of human right. This right is reflected in Sustainable Development Goal 6, whose targets 1 and 2 point to ... -
The likelihood of divorce and the riskiness of financial decisions
(2019-08)We link causally the riskiness of men’s management of their finances with the probability of their experiencing a divorce. Our point of departure is that when comparing single men to married men, the former manage their ... -
Can a deportation policy backfire?
(2019-10)Drawing on a model in which utility is derived from consumption and effort (labor supply), we ask how the deportation of a number of undocumented migrants influences the decisions regarding labor supply, consumption, and ... -
Switching queues, cultural conventions, and social welfare
(2019-07)We use queuing-related behavior as an instrument for assessing the social appeal of alternative cultural norms. Specifically, we study the behavior of rational and sophisticated individuals who stand in a given queue waiting ... -
The pure effect of social preferences on regional location choices: The evolving dynamics of convergence to a steady state population distribution
(2019-04)This paper tracks the consequences of individuals’ desire to align their location with their social preferences. The social preference studied in the paper is distaste for relative deprivation, measured in a cardinal manner. ... -
Repercussions of negatively selective migration for the behavior of non-migrants when preferences are social
(2019-04)We study how the work effort and output of non-migrants in a village economy are affected when a member of the village population migrates. Given that individuals dislike low relative income, and that migration modifies ... -
Farm wage and rice price dynamics in Bangladesh
(2019-04)Concepts explaining the wage‐price nexus in Bangladesh are diverse and conflicting. A proper understanding of the relationship between food prices and rural wages is essential for planning policies in support of the rural ... -
Can one improve now-casts of crop prices in Africa? Google can.
(2019-02)With increasing Internet user rates across Africa, there is considerable interest in exploring new, online data sources. Particularly, search engine metadata, i.e. data representing the contemporaneous online-interest in ...
