Theories based on partial equilibrium reasoning alone cannot explain the widespread negative cross-sectional correlation between parental wages and fertility, without restrictive assumptions on preferences and childcare costs. We argue that incorporating a dynamic general equilibrium analysis of returns to human capital can help explain observed empirical patterns. Other by-products of this the...

In this paper we estimate quadratic food Engel curves with measurement error using the 1994 Ethiopian Urban Household Budget Survey. In sharp contrast to the findings from developed countries, food share is found to increase with expenditure, and only starts to decline after some threshold level of expenditure. We establish the robustness of this inverted-U relationship by estimating a more fle...

This article explores the level of Women’s Empowerment (W’E) from six empowerment domains: decision-making, autonomy, access and control resources, community participation, participation in business management, within context corn-tortilla value chain. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data through survey method participant observation. The sample consisted 136 women producers...

From Farm to Fork Strategy is at the heart of European Green Deal – new growth strategy EU and a key implementation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). designed for building fair, healthy environmentally-friendly food system with an integrated safety policy in Union. Current paper presents some strategic accents main documents initiatives concerning future sustainable agri-food systems contex...

Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to experience a significant degree of social deprivation and exclusion, confirming much of the economic...

This paper provides a summary of the findings contained in a forthcoming issue of the Latin American Journal of Economics on entrepreneurship in Latin America as a vehicle for upward social mobility, especially for the middle class. The income persistence coefficients estimated with pseudo-panel data for Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay indicate that entrepreneurial activity is a channel of inter...