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Impact Of Credit On Labor Allocation And Consumption Patterns In Malawi

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Swaminathan, Hema
Findeis, Jill
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Using a bargaining framework, this paper analyzes the impact of access to credit on household labor allocation and on consumption expenditures in rural Malawi. The labor participation decisions of married men and women and female heads are estimated using random-effects probit models, and are corrected for endogeneity of access to credit. Expenditure shares are estimated using ordinary least squares and Tobit models.

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Paper provided by American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) in its series 2003 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Montreal, Canada with number 22118.

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Keywords: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Labor and Human Capital;

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