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According to standard economic theory, households should equate the marginal revenue product of an input across activities within the household. However, this prediction may not hold in the presence of risk. Using data on farm plots and non-farm enterprises in Malawi, we examine the impact of...
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Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the …
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I document negative externalities of air pollution in the Indian agricultural sector. Using variation in pollution induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity, with large changes in productivity being common. The...
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South Africa is one of only a handful of countries in which the prevalence of child stunting has increased over the …
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The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … the best of our knowledge, that the productivity of rural non-farm enterprises in Africa has been studied in this way. …
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agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural …
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Rural areas in Sub-Saharan Africa are typically underserved by financial services. Mobile money brings a substantial … work suggests that mobile money can accelerate urbanization and structural change in Sub-Saharan Africa. …
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Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited …
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agriculture, implying that average productivity in agriculture increases as the agricultural employment share decreases. We … from four Sub-Saharan African countries. Around one third of households engage in both agriculture and non … comparative and absolute advantage are negatively correlated - misaligned - in agriculture, casting doubt on the importance of …
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), have been studied relatively less, especially in Africa which remains the most vulnerable continent to CC. We focus on Lake …. For Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria, and Niger - 25% of sub-Saharan Africa's population -, we construct a novel data set tracking …
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