Similar Search Results

Attanasio, Orazio - 2014

In a recent paper, Anagol, Etang and Karlan (2013) consider the income generated by these owning a cow or a buffalo in two districts of Uttar Pradesh, India. The net profit generated ignoring labour costs, gives rise to a small positive rate of return. Once any reasonable estimate of labour...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458362

Continued Existence of Cows Disproves Central Tenets of Capitalism?

Anagol, Santosh - 2013

We examine the returns from owning cows and buffaloes in rural India. We estimate that when valuing labor at market wages, households earn large, negative average returns from holding cows and buffaloes, at negative 64% and negative 39% respectively. This puzzle is mostly explained if we value...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459223

Pace of Adoption of Alternatives to Animal-Source Foods and Climate Goals

Hale, Galina; Onescu, Vlad; Bhangale, Ritesh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

agriculture is responsible for a large share of the food-system emissions, both directly and through the production of animal feed …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635699

Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size

Foster, Andrew D. - 2017

This paper seeks to explain the U-shaped relationship between farm productivity and farm scale - the initial fall in productivity as farm size increases from its lowest levels and the continuous upward trajectory as scale increases after a threshold - observed across the world and in low-income...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453805

Finance, farms, and the Fed's early years

Carlin, Bruce - 2017

hand-collected data on banking and agriculture in Illinois in the early 20th century. The mechanism for the Fed's effect on … agriculture was a bank credit channel, operating independently of any deflationary effect on money supply. Our findings suggest …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455171

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

Misallocation, Selection and Productivity : A Quantitative Analysis with Panel Data from China

Adamopoulos, Tasso - 2017

factor misallocation in agriculture. We find that there are substantial frictions in both the land and capital markets linked … (misallocation) and (2) the allocation of workers across sectors, in particular the type of farmers who operate in agriculture … affecting occupational choices that worsen the distribution of productive units in agriculture …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455641

How Large Are the Gains from Economic Integration? Theory and Evidence from U.S. Agriculture, 1880-1997

Costinot, Arnaud - 2016

In this paper we develop a new approach to measuring the gains from economic integration based on a generalization of the Ricardian model in which heterogeneous factors of production are allocated to multiple sectors in multiple local markets based on comparative advantage. We implement this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455734

Does The Samaritan's Dilemma Matter? Evidence From U.S. Agriculture

Deryugina, Tatyana - 2016

.S. agriculture, where both private crop insurance and frequent federal disaster assistance are present. We find that bailout …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455835

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 three years. The program quarantees 100 days of employment per year at minimum wage to each rural household on demand, with the goal of reducing joblessness and poverty. We...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456178

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last