FARE 1300 Lecture Notes - Sub-Saharan Africa

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champagnehornet103

31 Jan 2012

School

University of Guelph

Department

Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics

Course

FARE 1300

Professor

Spencer Henson

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distribution of available calories across households (looking at low income vs high income, based on surveys) Cut-off point: lowest acceptable per-capita availability of calories (what is the lowest amount someone needs to just meet their needs: this is done every year for every country in the world, problems: data availability/quality (the info is mainly provided by governments, so it is highly political. intra-household distribution of food (perhaps the food is allocated unfairly in the households themselves) Key trends y levels of malnourishment: number of people, percentage of the population y global hunger index (ghi, elements: prevalence of underweight in children under five years of age. mortality rate in children under five years of age: values: 30. 0+: extremely alarming: **see charts/graphs on pdf y food production y real food prices y number of undernourished people globally, 1969-2010: s n o i l l i.

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Suppose a government report about aâ country's employment situation reveals the following dataâ (all values are in millions ofâ people).

240	â=	âWorking-age population
110	â=	Employed people
26	â=	People not working but actively looking for work
28	â=	Unemployed people who have stopped looking for work
76	â=	People not working and not seeking work

If the country in question is the Unitedâ States, these data are obtained from household surveys

From the dataâ above, it can be determined that thisâ country's labor force is ? million people.

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Hello, I would like to do my graduate research on the rate of return on education. I've thought about the mincer model but I have some concerns.

1. I will survey employees online using online surveys, is it an appropriate approach to select a random sample? (microdata needed aren't available for my country) (I'm in a Gulf country where there are no people below the poverty line and about 92% of the population uses the internet that is even publicly available) Info will be spread through instant messaging and emails (asking the university to send the email to staff and students who may pass it to others and other national social media accounts)

2. Due to some time limitation and in order to meet the graduation deadline, I can collect about 150 to 200 replies. Is it workable?

3. The variables I am thinking about are salary and wages, working hours, educational level, years of working experience, the average base starting salary after high school, training program length, gender, and parent's education. Are they enough to conduct the research?

4. Can you suggest another applicable model?

skywoodchuck421

Hello,

I would like to do my graduate research on the Rate of Return on Education. I've thought about the mincer model but I have some concerns.

1. I will survey employees online using online surveys, is it an appropriate approach to select a random sample? (microdata needed aren't available for my country)

2. I am thinking of a sample of 150-200 people, is it enough?

3. The variables I am thinking about are (Salary and Wages, Working Hours, Educational Level, Years of working experience, the average base starting salary after high school, training program length, gender, parent's education).

4. What are the programs I can use to process data for this model

5. Suggestion on this model or another model.

Thank you very much

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