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Should farmers farm more? : comparing marginal products within Malawian households

Brummund, Peter; Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2021

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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Air pollution and agricultural productivity in a developing country

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2023

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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The causal effects of enclosures on production and productivity

Lazuka, Volha; Bengtsson, Tommy; Svensson, Patrick - 2023

Enclosures enforced private property rights at the onset of industrialization, yet numerous estimations of the enclosures' effects on production and productivity rely on non-experimental designs. We estimate the causal effects of enclosure reforms applying state- of-the-art...

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Selection and absolute advantage in farming and entrepreneurship

Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Amodio, Francesco; … - 2019

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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Agricultural credits and agricultural productivity : cross-country evidence

Seven, Unal; Tumen, Semih - 2020

We present cross-country evidence suggesting that agricultural credits have a positive impact on agricultural productivity. In particular, we find that doubling agricultural credits generates around 4-5 percent increase in agricultural productivity. We use two different agricultural production...

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Out of communal land: clientelism through delegation of agricultural tenancy contracts

Kurosaki, Takashi; Paul, Saumik; Witoelar, Firman - 2021

Do local institutions influence the nature of political clientelist exchange? We find a positive answer in the context of a village institution prevalent in Java since the Dutch colonial rule, where democratically elected village heads receive usufruct rights over a piece of communal village...

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Improving reading skills by encouraging children to read : a randomized evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines

Abeberese, Ama Baafra; Kumler, Todd J.; Linden, Leigh L. - 2011

increases the propensity of children to read, causing 20 percent more children to have read a book in the last week at school …

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What we teach about race and gender : representation in images and text of children's books

Adukia, Anjali; Eble, Alex; Harrison, Emileigh; … - 2023

Books shape how children learn about society and norms, in part through representation of different characters. We introduce new artificial intelligence methods for systematically converting images into data and apply them, along with text analysis methods, to measure the representation of skin...

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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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Is women's ownership of land a panacea in developing countries? : evidence from land-owning farm households in Malawi

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2014

Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of cash crop cultivation by a household increases with the extent of land owned (or de facto controlled) by males,...

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