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Gendering technological change: evidence from agricultural mechanization

Afridi, Farzana; Bishnu, Monisankar; Mahajan, Kanika - 2020

Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can …

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Gender-biased technological change : milking machines and the exodus of women from farming

Ager, Philipp; Goñi, Marc; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

-level data from the Census of Agriculture, we show that the adoption of milking machines triggered a process of structural …

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Agricultural extension and technology adoption for food security : evidence from Uganda

Pan, Yao; Smith, Stephen C.; Sulaiman, Munshi - 2015

This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers...

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Can agricultural extension and input support be discontinued? : evidence from a randomized phaseout in Uganda

Fishman, Ram; Smith, Stephen C.; Bobić, Vida; … - 2019

A society that believes wealth to be determined by random "luck", rather than by merit, demands more redistribution. We present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009, which hit a large area of Central Italy through a series of...

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Can training enhance adoption, knowledge and perception of organic farming practices? : evidence from a randomized experiment in Indonesia

Grimm, Michael; Luck, Nathalie - 2020

In many parts of the world, several decades of intensively applying Green Revolution technologies came at environmental costs, i.e. degraded water and soil quality as well as a loss of biodiversity. This has led to an increased interest in alternative farming systems such as organic farming,...

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On the origins of gender roles : women and the plough

Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - 2011

, the descendants of societies that traditionally practiced plough agriculture, today have lower rates of female …

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Sooner rather than later: social networks and technology adoption

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Satish, Varun; Sulaiman, Munshi; … - 2021

Using data from a randomised experiment in Kenya, we estimate the causal effect of social networks on technology adoption. In this experiment, farmers were invited to information sessions about the use of Tissue Culture Banana (TCB), an in vitro banana cultivation technology. We find that an...

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How sustainable are benefits from extension for smallholder farmers? : evidence from a randomized phase-out of the BRAC program in Uganda

Fishman, Ram; Smith, Stephen C.; Bobić, Vida; … - 2017

Many development programs are based on short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or because it is assumed that impacts persist post program termination ("sustainability"). Using a novel randomized phase-out research method, we provide experimental tests of the...

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Entrepreneurship and the reallocation of African farmers

Naudé, Wim - 2015

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 … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …

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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly...

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