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Technical Efficiency in Bangladesh Rice Production: Are There Threshold Effects in Farm Size?

Adachi, Kenji; del Ninno, Carlo; Liu, Donald J. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

Replaced with revised version of poster 07/21/10.

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Measuring Market Integration in the Presence of Threshold Effect: The Case of Bangladesh Rice Markets

Alam, Mohammad Jahangir; McKenzie, Andrew M.; Buysse, Jeroen - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

Spatial price integration among five major Bangladesh rice markets is examined in the presence of threshold effects to … importance of directing policy goals towards reducing transaction cost to engender greater pricing efficiency in Bangladesh rice …

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REGIONAL PRODUCTIVITY DIFFERENCES AND PROSPECT FOR CONVERGENCE IN BANGLADESH AGRICULTURE, 1964-1992

Rahman, Sanzidur - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2004

for agriculture in 16 regions of Bangladesh from 1964 to 1992 and examines convergence among regions. Productivity grew at …

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Fertility and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from One Child Policy in China

Wang, Hui - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

Unlike in the United States where fertility is found to be negatively correlated with female labor force participation …, China has witnessed a decrease in both fertility and female labor force participation since the 1980s. Does fertility play a … plausibly exogenous variations in fertility created by the afffirmative One-Child Policy in China to estimate the effect of …

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Farmer Demand for Soil Fertility Management Practices in Kenya’s Grain Basket

Kamau, Mercy; Smale, Melinda; Mutua, Mercy - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

influence on use of soil fertility management practices. Sex of household head affects use of soil fertility management … practices only in maize production, and particularly in use of N and P. Decisions to use different categories of soil fertility …

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The Impact of Alternative Market Orientation Strategies on Firm Performance: Customer versus Competitor Orientation

Micheels, Eric T.; Gow, Hamish R. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

Research studies have differed over the importance of the relative emphasis of a customer versus competitor orientation in the development of a market orientation (Slater and Narver, 1994; Tajeddini, 2010). In this study, we assess whether the emphasis of one component over another of a market...

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Is Agricultural Production Spillover the Rationale Behind NEPAD CAADP Framework? Spatial Econometric Approach

Ulimwengu, John M.; Sanyal, Prabuddha - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

Since 2003, the NEPAD Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) has been endorsed by African Heads … Africa. The program aims at stimulating agriculture-led development that eliminates hunger and reduces poverty and food …

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Modeling the Effects of Cap and Trade and a Carbon Offset Policy on Crop Allocations and Farm Income

Nalley, Lawton Lanier; Popp, Michael P. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

A static, producer profit maximization framework is used to capture county level land use choice on the basis of profitability, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to the farm gate as well as soil carbon sequestration as affected by tillage and soil type. Policy scenarios of a 5% GHG cap on...

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Implications of Immigration Policies for the U.S. Farm Sector and Workforce

Devadoss, Stephen; Luckstead, Jeff - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

We develop a theoretical model using migration and trade theory to examine the effects of domestic and border enforcement policies on unauthorized workers and the U.S. agricultural sector. The theoretical results show that heightened immigration policies increase the illegal farm wage rate, and...

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Climate Change, Risk and Grain Production in China

Holst, Rainer; Yu, Xiaohua; Grun, Carola - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

This paper employs the production function-based method proposed by Just and Pope (1978, 1979) to explicitly analyze production risk in the context of Chinese grain farming and climate change, and test for a potential endogeneity of climate factors in Chinese grain production. Our results...

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