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MEASURING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF TECHNICAL PROGRESS IN LOW-INCOME AGRICULTURE: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT AND FOREST PRESSURE IN PALAWAN, THE PHILIPPINES
Shively, Gerald E. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 1999
Data from the Philippines are used to measure impacts of technical progress in lowland agriculture on upland forests. Irrigation development, labor demand, and employment are studied. Total annual labor use increased following irrigation. Employment of household members living along forest...
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Can Education Be a Barrier to Technology Adoption?
Uematsu, Hiroki; Mishra, Ashok K. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
The objective of this study is to test the widely‐held belief that the effect of education has a positive impact on … marginal effect of education on technology adoption is significantly larger for large farms for both GM crops and precision … farming and it is unexpectedly negative for GM crops at all levels of farm size. These results suggest that formal education …
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Non-Food Coping Strategies in Response to the World Food Price Crisis: Evidence from Education in India
Tandon, Sharad - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
World grains prices dramatically increased between 2007 and 2008, but rice prices especially surged. Utilizing the much larger spike in rice prices than in wheat, this article compares the response of Indian households consuming rice as the staple grain to households consuming wheat. Households...
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Income Growth and Mobility of Rural Households in Kenya: Role of Education and Historical Patterns in Poverty Reduction
Mathenge, Mary K.; Tschirley, David L. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2007
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/26/07.
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Are Biofuels Revitalizing Rural Economies? Projected Versus Actual Labor Market Impacts in the Great Plains
Schlosser, Janet A.; Leatherman, John C.; Peterson, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008
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Estimating Child Time Preferences: Aiding Rural Schools in Improving Human Capital Formation
Jordan, Jeffrey L.; Castillio, Marco; Ferraro, Paul J.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008
Black boy requires expected returns to education 13-15% higher than Black girls to compensate for his larger discounting of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005804646
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LABOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH AND CONVERGENCE IN THE KANSAS FARM SECTOR: A TRIPARTITE DECOMPOSITION USING THE DEA APPROACH
Mugera, Amin W.; Langemeier, Michael R. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008
The objective of this paper is to analyze sources of labor productivity growth in the Kansas farm sector over the period 1993-2006 for a sample of 668 farms. The nonparametric production frontier method is used to decompose labor productivity growth into three components: (1) technological...
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Did the Baby Boom Cause the Farm-Size Boom?
Roberts, Michael J.; Key, Nigel D. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008
Growing farm size has generally been explained by technological advances that have allowed farmers to substitute capital for labor. Another possible factor in explaining recent farm size is the demographic shift: the age distribution of farmers has shifted to the right and older farmers...
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Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China
de Brauw, Alan; Giles, John - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008
In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of rural households in China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and that this effect is stronger for poorer households...
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The Wage Earnings Impact of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Mykerezi, Elton; Mills, Bradford F. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2006
Paper removed by author. Please see the current version in the July 2008 issue of the Southern Economic Journal, Volume 75, Number 1, pages 173-187.
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