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Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size
Foster, Andrew D. - 2017
scales. Using data from the India ICRISAT VLS panel survey we find evidence consistent with these conditions, suggesting that …
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Analyzing the Impact of the World’s Largest Public Works Project on Crime
Das, Satadru - 2016
India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within …
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Forecasting Profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark - 2013
areas of India, and that farmers respond more strongly to the forecast where there is more forecast skill and not at all …
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Misallocation in Indian Agriculture
Bolhuis, Marijn A.; Rachapalli, Swapnika Reddy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We exploit substantial variation in land-market institutions across Indian states and detailed micro household-level panel data to assess the effect of distortions in land rental markets on agricultural productivity. We provide empirical evidence that states with more rental-market activity...
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Mechanizing Agriculture
Caunedo, Julieta; Kala, Namrata - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
value of family labor, 20% below their outside option in non-agriculture …
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Melitz Meets Lewis : The Impacts of Roads on Structural Transformation and Businesses
Kaboski, Joseph Paul; Lu, Jianyu; Qian, Wei; Ren, Lixia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
. \textit{Ceteris paribus} lower trade costs in non-agriculture lead to fewer firms, but cheaper agricultural imports releases … labor from local agricultural production leading to more firms. Using major highway programs in India and China, we find …
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Social Structure and Institutional Design : Evidence from a Lab Experiment in the Field
Breza, Emily - 2014
Assigning a third party at the 75th percentile of the centrality distribution (as compared to the 25th) increases efficiency by 21% relative to the mean: we attribute 2/5 of the effect to monitoring and 3/5 to enforcement. The largest efficiency increase occurs when senders and receivers are...
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The Market Value of R&D in Weak Innovation Regimes : Evidence from India
Kanwar, Sunil - 2015
We revisit the relationship between market value and innovation in the context of manufacturing firms in a developing …
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Brain Drain or Brain Bank? The Impact of Skilled Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation
Agrawal, Ajay - 2008
The development prospects of a poor country depend in part on its capacity for innovation. The productivity of its …-location and diaspora effects for accessing knowledge. Then, using patent citation data associated with inventions from India, we … access, on average. However, knowledge access conferred by the diaspora is particularly valuable in the production of India …
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Reevaluating Agricultural Productivity Gaps with Longitudinal Microdata
Hicks, Joan Hamory - 2017
Recent research has pointed to large gaps in labor productivity between the agricultural and nonagricultural sectors in low-income countries, as well as between workers in rural and urban areas. Most estimates are based on national accounts or repeated cross-sections of micro-survey data, and as...
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