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Land Rental Markets : Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Acampora, Michelle; Casaburi, Lorenzo; Willis, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Land market incompleteness is argued to have pervasive effects in Sub-Saharan Africa, including on agricultural efficiency, equity, and structural transformation. Yet experimental evidence on land market participation is virtually non-existent. We randomly allocate subsidies for agricultural...
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Going the Extra Mile : Farm Subsidies and Spatial Convergence in Agricultural Input Adoption
Kumar, Naresh; Kapoor, Rolly; Aggarwal, Shilpa; Jeong, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Many countries subsidize agricultural inputs but require farmers to travel to retailers to access inputs, just as for normal purchases. What effect do travel costs have on subsidy take-up and input usage, particularly for remote farmers? We analyze Malawi's Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP), and...
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Long-Range Forecasts As Climate Adaptation : Experimental Evidence From Developing-Country Agriculture
Burlig, Fiona; Jina, Amir; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Climate change increases weather variability, exacerbating agricultural risk in poor countries. Risk-averse farmers are unable to tailor their planting decisions to the coming season, and underinvest in profitable inputs. Accurate, long-range forecasts enable farmers to optimize for the season...
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The Economics of Tropical Deforestation
Balboni, Clare A.; Berman, Aaron; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Two factors have elevated recent academic and policy interest in tropical deforestation: first, the realization that it … forest loss at a fine spatial resolution across the globe. We then develop a simple benchmark model of deforestation based on … classic models of natural resource extraction. Extending this approach to incorporate features that characterize deforestation …
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Shortening the Path to Productive Investment : Evidence from Input Fairs and Cash Transfers in Malawi
Aggarwal, Shilpa; Jeong, Dahyeon; Kumar, Naresh; Park, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
While cash transfers consistently show large effects on immediate outcomes like consumption, limited access to markets may mute their impact on productive investment. In an experiment in Malawi, we cross-cut cash transfers with an "input fair," designed to reduce transport costs to access...
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Is the Emphasis on Cofinancing Good for Environmental Multilateral Funds?
Kotchen, Matthew J.; Vogt, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
International environment and development agencies increasingly emphasize external cofinancing when selecting projects to fund. This paper considers whether the emphasis on cofinancing helps promote institutional objectives, or creates perverse and inefficient incentives. We present a model of...
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Money (Not) to Burn : Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning
Jack, B. Kelsey; Jayachandran, Seema; Kala, Namrata; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Particulate matter significantly reduces life expectancy in India. We use a randomized controlled trial in the Indian state of Punjab to evaluate the effectiveness of conditional cash transfers (also known as payments for ecosystem services, or PES) in reducing crop residue burning, which is a...
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Economies of Density and Congestion in the Sharing Economy
Caunedo, Julieta; Kala, Namrata; Zhang, Haimeng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The sharing economy for a wide range of goods and services is expanding across the world. To direct the benefits from sharing capital services towards small-scale producers, governments in the developing world are increasingly intervening in fast-growing mechanization rental markets. However,...
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Reformulating Index Insurance to Protect Women's Assets and Well-being : Evidence from Pastoralist Communities in Kenya
Arteaga, Julián; Carter, Michael R.; Hobbs, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The novel insurance contracts for crop losses and livestock mortality that have been developed in low income countries typically protect against shocks in the male sphere of economic activity. Often overlooked are women, the particularities of their indirect exposure to this risk, and their...
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Revisiting the Eswaran-Kotwal Model of Tenancy
Ghatak, Maitreesh; Mookherjee, Dilip - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Persistence of sharecropping tenancy and increases in farm productivity following regulations protecting tenant rights have been observed in many developing countries. This paper examines if these can be explained by alternative models of sharecropping with two sided efforts/investments, namely,...
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