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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293601
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014319184
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307460
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517246
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242319
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631534
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012035684
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Nonstandard forms and measures of employment and unemployment in transition : a comparative study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia
Brown, J. David (contributor) - 2006
unemployment statistics. This paper analyzes microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to … (subsistence agriculture), unpaid family helpers, and discouraged workers; while the categories of part-time work and other forms … alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278938
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So many rocket scientists, so few marketing clerks : estimating the effects of economic reform on occupational mobility in Estonia
Campos, Nauro (contributor);  … - 2008
Why do workers change occupations? This paper investigates occupational mobility and its determinants following a large unexpected shock (communism's collapse in 1989.) Our calculations show that from 1989 to 1995 between 35 and 50 percent of Estonian workers changed occupations (classified at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793275