Drivers of Poverty, Mortality and Labor Supply in Developing Countries

  • Brand: Priebe, Dr. Jan
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  • SKU: 9783941274761

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This book contributes to the empirical literature on poverty, mortality and labor supply in developing countries. Each of the three essays included in this book make use of new household data sets that were collected to innovatively address a well-defined research problem. The first chapter investigates the relationship between undernutrition...

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This book contributes to the empirical literature on poverty, mortality and labor supply in developing countries. Each of the three essays included in this book make use of new household data sets that were collected to innovatively address a well-defined research problem. The first chapter investigates the relationship between undernutrition and child mortality in sub-Sahara Africa and explains why children around Lake Victoria have very low chances to survive up to age 5 despite being extremely wellnourished. The second chapter examines the effect of fertility on female labor force participation and instructively shows that the need to finance basic expenditures on children forces women to enter the labor market in a developing country context. The third chapter studies the effect of cash crop choice, the switch from coffee to cocoa in Indonesian agriculture, on the growth in per-capita incomes in rural Indonesia following the crisis of 1997/98.

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  • Title: Drivers of Poverty, Mortality and Labor Supply in Developing Countries
  • Author: Dr. Jan Priebe
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Released: 1st edition 05/23/2011
  • Subject: Economics
  • Product Type: Book (Hardcover)
  • Product type: Dissertation
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Softcover (paperback)
  • Dimensions: 21.0 x 14.8 cm (DIN A5)
  • Scope: 143 pages
  • Condition: New (shrink-wrapped in foil)
  • Keywords: Cash Crop Choice, Developing Countries, Female Labor Force Participation, Fertility, Household Data Sets, Indonesian Agriculture, Labor Market, Labor Supply, Lake Victoria, Mortality, Per-Capita Income, Poverty, Sub-Sahara Africa, Undernutrition

Author

Jan Priebe was born in Rostock in 1980. He studied Economics at the University of Göttingen, Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires and the University of California, Irvine. Between 2006 and 2011 he was a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Economics at the University of Göttingen and completed his Ph.D. program in 'Applied Statistics and Empirical Methods' at the Center for Statistics at the University of Göttingen. During this time he also worked on the implementation of household surveys in India and Indonesia and as consultant for BMZ, DFID, GIZ and UNICEF.

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