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Self-Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Beaman, Lori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We partnered with a micro‐lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no- loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969288
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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Osei, Robert Darko; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The binding constraint …, farmers are able to find resources to increase expenditure on their farms. Demand for insurance in subsequent years is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969291
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Seasonal Credit Constraints and Agricultural Labor Supply: Evidence from Zambia
Fink, Günther; Jack, B. Kelsey; Masiye, Felix - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Small-scale farming remains the primary source of income for a majority of the population in developing countries. While most farmers primarily work on their own fields, off-farm labor is common among small-scale farmers. A growing literature suggests that off-farm labor is not the result of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969399
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The Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Agricultural Profits and Random
Deschenes, Olivier; Greenstone, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
This paper measures the economic impact of climate change on US agricultural land. We replicate the previous literature's implementation of the hedonic approach and find that it produces estimates of the effect of climate change that are very sensitive to decisions about the appropriate control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005019419
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The Sahel's Silent Maize Revolution: Analyzing Maize Productivity in Mali at the Farm-level
Foltz, Jeremy D.; Aldana, Ursula T.; Laris, Paul - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
increased fertilizer use has driven much of the productivity growth rather than the adoption of improvements in seeds and … revolution and point to the importance of taking into account farmer heterogeneity in estimating productivity and returns to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652803
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Estimating Ricardian Models With Panel Data
Mendelsohn, Robert Owen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Many nonmarket valuation models, such as the Ricardian model, have been estimated using cross sectional methods with a single year of data. Although multiple years of data should increase the robustness of such methods, repeated cross sections suggest the results are not stable. We argue that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652846
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Agriculture, Roads, and Economic Development in Uganda
Rogerson, Richard; Gollin, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
-subsistence agriculture is highly sensitive both to agricultural productivity levels and to transportation costs. The model also suggests …A large fraction of Uganda's population continues to earn a living from quasi-subsistence agriculture. This paper uses … a static general equilibrium model to explore the relationships between high transportation costs, low productivity, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008635911
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Profitability of Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali
Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Beaman, Lori A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In an experiment providing fertilizer grants to women rice farmers in Mali, we found that women who received fertilizer increased both the quantity of fertilizer they used on their plots and complementary inputs such as herbicides and hired labor. This highlights that farmers respond to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785597
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Why Should We Care About Child Labor? The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor
Beegle, Kathleen; Dehejia, Rajeev; Gatti, Roberta - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
Although there is an extensive literature on the determinants of child labor and many initiatives aimed at combating it, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socio-economic outcomes such as education, wages, and health. We evaluate the causal effect of child labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005777329
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Market Structure, Outgrower contracs and Farm Output. Evidence from Cotton Reforms in Zambia
Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
of coordination among firms and farms, and a subsequent period of success of the scheme, due to enhanced contract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005105857