Bina Agarwal
AbstractIn recent years, the concept of 'food sovereignty' has gained increasing ground among grassroots groups, taking the form of a global movement. But there is no uniform conceptualization of what food sovereignty constitutes. Indeed, the definition has been expanding over time. It has moved fro...
Mark M. Pitt, Mark R. Rosenzweig, Mohammad Nazmul Hassan
We use a model of human capital investment and activity choice to explain facts describing gender differentials in the levels and returns to human capital investments. These include the higher return to and level of schooling, the small effect of healthiness on wages, and the large effect of healthi...
Mark M. Pitt, Mark R. Rosenzweig, Md. Nazmul Hassan
In many rural areas of low-income countries, biomass fuel is the principal source of household energy, meaning that indoor air pollution (IAP) is a serious health problem. If exposure to IAP is greatest in areas where combustion occurs, primarily the kitchen, IAP will mostly affect the women who coo...
Mark R. Rosenzweig, Jacomina P. de Regt, Stephen Spector
Services are failing poor urban and rural people in the developing world, and poverty remains concentrated in rural areas and urban slums. This state of affairs prevails despite prolonged efforts by many governments to improve rural and urban services and development programs. This book focuses on h...
Mark M. Pitt, Mark R. Rosenzweig, Mohammad Nazmul Hassan
Abstract We exploit recent molecular genetics evidence on the genetic basis of arsenic excretion and unique information on family links among respondents living in different environments from a large panel survey to uncover the hidden costs of arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh. We provide for the firs...
Mark M. Pitt, Mark R. Rosenzweig, Nazmul Hassan
We exploit recent molecular genetics evidence on the genetic basis of arsenic excretion and unique information on family links among respondents living in different environments from a large panel survey within a theoretical framework incorporating optimizing behavior to uncover the hidden costs of ...
Mark M. Pitt, Mark R. Rosenzweig, Nazmul Hassan
We use a model of human capital investment and activity choice to explain facts describing gender differentials in the levels and returns to human capital investments. These include the higher return to and level of schooling, the small effect of healthiness on wages, and the large effect of healthi...
Norma C. Manrique‐Carpintero, Md Shafiqul Islam, Felix E. Enciso-Rodríguez, N. Rosenzweig et al.
Late blight, caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans (Mont) de Bary, is the most important disease of cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). An efficient long-term strategy for controlling late blight infection involves integration of host plant resistance to disease management programs. In...
Mark M. Pitt, Mark R. Rosenzweig, Nazmul Hassan
We exploit recent molecular genetics evidence on the genetic basis of arsenic excretion and unique information on family links among respondents living in different environments from a large panel survey within a theoretical framework incorporating optimizing behavior to uncover the hidden costs of ...
Mark M. Pitt, Mark R. Rosenzweig, Nazmul Hassan
Mark M. Pitt, Mark R. Rosenzweig, Nazmul Hassan
John Saunders
The phenomenon of anthropogenic climate change is now well-established, with global temperatures in 2024 having already exceeded the Paris Agreement target ceiling of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels (Copernicus 2025) and extreme weather events (EWEs) an increasing occurrence. EWEs—including floodi...
Mariana Stoler, Rick Halpern
Over the last decade digital humanities has swept through the academy, touching almost every field of inquiry and energizing a number of disciplines. Labor history was an early leader in this initiative, with pioneering digital work by Roy Rosenzweig, James Gregory, and others. In recent years, howe...
Mark M. Pitt, Mark R. Rosenzweig, Mohammad Nazmul Hassan
Replication files for the article "Identifying the Costs of a Public Health Success:<br> Arsenic Well Water Contamination and Productivity in Bangladesh."
World Bank
No AccessJan 2017Governance in an Interconnected WorldAuthors/Editors: World BankWorld BankSearch for more papers by this authorhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-0950-7_ch9AboutView ChaptersFull TextPDF (3.8 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Ab...