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Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the …
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smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders … reallocate labor across activities less in response to intra-seasonal crop price changes than do non-smallholders. A … counterfactual exercise indicates smallholders could increase revenue by almost nine percent if they were to reallocate labor …
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relaxes credit constraints. Using longitudinal data for Vietnam from 1993-98, we find that households participating in non … inputs. -- Rural labor markets ; linkages ; credit constraints ; Vietnam …
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Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited access to formal savings. This is the first study to use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of using mobile money as a tool to promote agricultural investment....
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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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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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rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey spanning the early to mid-2010s. Addressing endogeneity issues with a …
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middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to …, Vietnam, and Tanzania). Overall, the economic, social, and institutional constraints that shape women's labor force …
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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 period during which progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been monitored. One explanation for this reversal is that Big Food retail chains have been...
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that rainfall variability induces the reallocation of labor supply: (i) out of agriculture to unemployment, (ii) from …
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