Effects on Household Labor of Temporary Out-migration by Male Household Heads in Nicaragua and Peru: An Analysis of Spot-check Time Allocation Data Using Mixed-effects Models

Human Ecology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 221-237

  Koster, Jeremy M ^a   Grote, Mark N ^b   Winterhalder, Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Labor; Migration; Mixed effects modeling; Scan sampling; Spot check; Time allocation

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LABOR MIGRATION; MODELING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME ALLOCATION;

NICARAGUA; PERU;

EID: 84875448920     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-012-9549-5     Document Type: Article

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