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Two Blades of Grass : The Impact of the Green Revolution
Gollin, Douglas - 2018
We examine the economic impact of high-yielding crop varieties (HYVs) in developing countries 1960-2000. We use time variation in the development and diffusion of HYVs of 10 major crops, spatial variation in agro-climatically suitability for growing them, and a differences-in-differences...
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New Evidence on Sectoral Labor Productivity : Implications for Industrialization and Development
Herrendorf, Berthold; Rogerson, Richard Donald; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Moving labor from agriculture to manufacturing - "industrialization" - is often viewed as essential for the development … Development Centre and build a new dataset of comparable labor productivity levels in agriculture and manufacturing for 64 mostly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172134
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455428
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The Agricultural Productivity Gap
Gollin, Douglas - 2013
agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural …
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The Macroeconomics of Intensive Agriculture
Boppart, Timo; Kiernan, Patrick; Krusell, Per; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Developing countries employ a very large share of their workforce in agriculture, a sector in which their labor … productivity is particularly low. We take a macroeconomic approach to analyze the role of agriculture in development. We construct … dramatically relative to labor prices; concurrently, capital and intermediate input use in agriculture increases by a factor of 300 …
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Subsidies and the African Green Revolution : Direct Effects and Social Network Spillovers of Randomized Input Subsidies in Mozambique
Carter, Michael - 2019
The Green Revolution bolstered agricultural yields and rural well-being in Asia and Latin America, but bypassed sub-Saharan Africa. We study the first randomized controlled trial of a government-implemented input subsidy program (ISP) in Africa. A temporary subsidy for Mozambican maize farmers...
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Can Network Theory-based Targeting Increase Technology Adoption?
Beaman, Lori - 2018
In order to induce farmers to adopt a productive new agricultural technology, we apply simple and complex contagion diffusion models on rich social network data from 200 villages in Malawi to identify seed farmers to target and train on the new technology. A randomized controlled trial compares...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480567
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Hog Round Marketing, Seed Quality, and Government Policy : Institutional Change in U.S. Cotton Production, 1920-1960
Olmstead, Alan L. - 2003
Between 1928 and 1960 U.S. cotton production witnessed a revolution with average yields roughly tripling while the quality of the crop increased significantly. This paper analyzes the key institutional and scientific developments that facilitated the revolution in biological technologies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469085
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The role of agriculture in economic development : a conference of the Universtities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research
Thorbecke, Erik (ed.) - 1969
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Realizing the gains from trade : export crops, marketing costs, and poverty
Balat, Jorge F. - 2007
"This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. We claim that the marketing costs that emerge when the commercialization of export crops requires intermediaries can lead to lower participation into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty....
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