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Indicators Of Gendered Control Over Agricultural Resources: A Guide For Agricultural Policy And Research, Smriti Rao
Indicators Of Gendered Control Over Agricultural Resources: A Guide For Agricultural Policy And Research, Smriti Rao
Economics and Global Studies Department Faculty Works
Although the importance of women’s contribution to the agricultural sector in developing countries is now widely acknowledged, there is little systematic evidence on how gender gaps in control over resources have changed over time in response to agricultural policy and technological interventions. In particular, few large-scale, national-level studies examine these effects for developing countries. This is surprising in light of the pervasive impact of agricultural technology and policy innovation on gender differences in control over productive resources for agriculture. Women are farmers and agricultural laborers in every part of the world. They are often responsible for the storage and processing …
Understanding Human Trafficking Origin: A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis, Smriti Rao, Christina Presenti
Understanding Human Trafficking Origin: A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis, Smriti Rao, Christina Presenti
Economics and Global Studies Department Faculty Works
Feminist work on global human trafficking has highlighted the conceptual difficulty of differentiating between trafficking and migration. This paper uses a cross-country UN dataset on human trafficking to empirically evaluate the socio-economic characteristics of high trafficking origin countries and compare them to patterns that have emerged in the literature on migration. In particular, we ask how and how much per capita income and gender inequality matter in shaping patterns of human trafficking origin. Ordinal logit regressions corrected for sample selection bias tell us that trafficking has an inverse-U shaped relationship with income per capita, and, controlling for income, is more …