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Changing the Cost of Children and Fertility: Evidence from the Israeli Kibbutz

Ebenstein, Avraham; Hazan, Moshe; Simhon, Avi - Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, … - 2014

Prior to 1996, Israelis in collective communities (kibbutzim) shared the costs of raising children equally. This paper examines the impact of privatizing costs of children on the behavior of young couples using universal microdata on kibbutz members. Exploiting variation in the increase in cost...

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Cooperatives in Kyrgyzstan: Findings from a Survey of Cooperatives and Users

Lerman, Zvi; Sedik, David - Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, … - 2013

Most cooperatives in Kyrgyzstan are production cooperatives – successors of former collective farms. • There are hardly … any “pure” service cooperatives, although production cooperatives partially fulfill the function of service cooperatives … by providing farm services also to non-members.Cooperatives play a positive role in rural life: o sufficiency of services …

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The Burkinabe Cotton Story 1999-2007: Sustainable Success of Sub-Saharan Mirage?

Kaminski, Jonathan; Headey, Derek D.; Bernard, Tanguy - Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, … - 2010

Like many other African countries in the 1980s, Burkina Faso was urged to engage in a far-reaching liberalization of its state-led cotton sector. Yet unlike most of its neighbors, the Burkinabè government rejected both the status quo and wholesale liberalization, and instead embarked on a more...

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Raising the Financial Costs of Children and Fertility Responses: Evidence from the Kibbutz

Ebenstein, Avraham; Hazan, Moshe; Simhon, Avi - Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, … - 2011

Prior to 1996, Israelis in collective communities (kibbutzim) shared the costs of raising children equally. This paper examines the impact of the privatization of kibbutzim on fertility behavior among members. We find that fertility declined by 6-15 percent following the shift to privatization....

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Sociability and the timing of first marriage

Heizler, Odelia; Yacouel, Nira; Kimhi, Ayal - Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, … - 2012

This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of sociability on the age of marriage. Theoretically, a more sociable individual has higher chances of finding a suitable partner for marriage early in life, and hence is expected to marry earlier than an otherwise similar...

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The Role of Cybermediaries in the Hotel Market

Yacouel, Nira; Fleischer, Aliza - Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, … - 2010

The advent of the Internet changed the way buyers and sellers interact. Although access to information seems unlimited, non-expert agents find it difficult to identify the information they can confidently use. A third-party expert or a cybermediary (an intermediary in the cyberspace) can help...

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Dynamic regulation of nonpoint source pollution when the number of emitters is large

Tsur, Yacov; de Gorter, Harry - Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, … - 2012

When a nonpoint source pollution process involves many polluters, each taking his own contribution to aggregate pollution to be negligible, ambient-based policies become ineffective due to lack of strategic interactions between dischargers. We offer a regulation mechanism for this case. The...

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Changing Incentives to Sow Cotton for African Farmers: Evidence from the Burkina Faso Reform

Kaminski, Jonathan - Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, … - 2008

Over the last 10 years, Burkina Faso has experienced a reform of its cotton sector, and is now the largest African cotton producer and exporter. The cotton ”boom” consisted of a rapid expansion of cotton areas through the growth of land shares allocated to cotton (and new producers),...

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Wealth, Living Standards and Perceptions in a Cotton Economy: Evidence from the Cotton Reform in Burkina Faso

Kaminski, Jonathan - Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, … - 2008

The cotton economy of Burkina Faso has been characterized by a changing rural environment for farmers since late nineties, which has come with the cotton reform and the resulting cotton boost. There have been slight improvements in living standards and rural households’ income while the...

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PLOT SIZE AND MAIZE PRODUCTIVITY IN ZAMBIA: THE INVERSE RELATIONSHIP RE-EXAMINED

Kimhi, Ayal - Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, … - 2003

Agricultural productivity is known to decline with farm size in many developing countries. This may be a result of market imperfections, such as missing rural labor markets. On the other hand, there may be economies of scale in farming, due, for instance, to the importance of lumpy inputs....

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