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country agriculture. The goal of such coordination is to better integrate smallholder farmers into the modern agricultural …
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public radio (intended for Serbs in Serbia) whenever signal is available. As a result, the vote for extreme nationalist …
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productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger shares of land …
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We assess the extent and cost of misallocation in agriculture in less-developed countries comparing the analysis at the …
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Groundwater is a key resource for agricultural production globally. Increasingly rapid aquifer drawdowns--as well as the policies intended to increase their sustainability--increase costs to agricultural producers, with unknown consequences. This paper provides the first large-scale empirical...
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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 feature less misallocation and reallocate land more efficiently over time …
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We document that nearly half of the global decline in agricultural employment during the 20th-century was driven by new cohorts entering the labor market. A newly compiled dataset of policy reforms supports an interpretation of these cohort effects as human capital. Through the lens of a model...
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value of family labor, 20% below their outside option in non-agriculture …
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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 …
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from agriculture to non-agriculture and from rural to urban areas. We combine rich household and individual-level panel … potentially migrates, capturing an additional channel of selection within the household. We find that land insecurity has … by almost 30 percentage points and depressing agricultural productivity by more than 10 percent. Quantitatively, land …
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