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| Title: | | The Welfare Effects of Farm Household Activity Choices in Post-War Mozambique  |
| Authors: | | Brück, Tilman |
| Issue Date: | | 2004 |
| Series/Report no.: | | DIW-Diskussionspapiere 413 |
| Abstract: | | This paper analyses the effects of activity choices on farm household income and consumption in a war-affected developing country. The study uses household survey data from Mozambique and controls for the endogeneity of activity choices with instrumental variables. War-time activity choices (such as subsistence farming) are shown to enhance welfare in the post-war period. Market and social exchange induce only limited welfare gains. Cotton adoption reduces household welfare, which contradicts previous studies not controlling for endogenous activity choices. The study thus demonstrates how standard predictions of economics may become invalid in post-war economies. Furthermore, the paper identifies pro-poor reconstruction policies. |
| Subjects: | | poverty farm households activity choices rural development war reconstruction |
| JEL: | | O13 I31 Q12 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des DIW DIW-Diskussionspapiere
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