Gautam Hazarika

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of household access to micro-credit upon work by seven to eleven year old children in rural Malawi and found that household access, measured in a novel manner as self-assessed credit limits at micro credit organizations, raises the probability of child work in households with sample mean values of land ownership and number of retail sales enterprises.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect of access to credit from formal sources, and tobacco plot size, on cost inefficiency among Malawian smallholder tobacco cultivators, and found that tobacco cultivation is significantly less cost inefficient per acre on larger plots.

TL;DR: It is found that, among 0 to 5-year-old children, boys are favoured in the allocation of health care, but girls appear as nourished as or better nourished than boys, taken to be evidence that intra-household gender discrimination has primary origins not in parental preference for boys but in differential returns to parents from investment in boys and girls.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of household access to microcredit upon work by 7-11-year-old children in rural Malawi and found that, in the season of peak labor demand, household access, measured as self-assessed credit limits at microcredit organizations, raises the probability of child work in households with average landholdings and retail sales enterprises.

TL;DR: This article examined young adult migration from non-metropolitan counties to either different non-Metropolitan counties or to metropolitan areas and found that expected gains in initial earnings provide young entrants to the labor force with a marked incentive to migrate from their nonmetropolitan county of origin.