Understanding Rwandan Agricultural Households' Strategies to Deal with Prime Age Illness and Death: A Propensity Score Matching Approach

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Understanding Rwandan Agricultural Households' Strategies to Deal with Prime Age Illness and Death: A Propensity Score Matching Approach

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Cynthia Donovan () (Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University)
Linda Bailey

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This research seeks to evaluate the agricultural strategies used by households in dealing with morbidity and mortality, and to determine differences in crop production between households that have experienced a recent adult illness or death due to illness compared to those without adult morbidity or mortality.

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Paper provided by Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University in its series International Development Collaborative Working Papers with number RW-FSRP-RR-15.

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Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy

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NEP-AFR-2006-11-25 (Africa)
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