hold when restricting estimation to periods of high and low non-farm labor allocation. These results are consistent with …

technical efficiency in production. Second, it applies various stochastic frontier panel data models to estimate the technical … efficiency of Iran's cotton production and to provide empirical evidence on the sources of technical inefficiency of cotton … result in reducing technical efficiency. The mean technical efficiency of the models is around 80 percent. Variations in the …

Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market … imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises … on the overall productivity of rice farmers and disentangled the total effect into technological change (frontier shift …

A consistent finding in the development literature is that average non-farm labor productivity is higher than average … farm labor productivity. These differences in average productivity are sometimes used to promote policies which advance the … non-farm sector. In this paper, we analyze the importance of two specification choices when comparing productivity gaps …

builds on instrumental variable estimation, where the exposure to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is used … of scale as well a high upfront expenses of acquiring high productivity animals might trap poorer households in low-productivity …

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 …

productivity in enterprises operated by young owners. Using the World Bank's recent LSMS-ISA database that covers six countries in … young adults to start enterprises, but to also enable young entrepreneurs to improve productivity in already existing …

exist, then PPLD would have efficiency and redistributive effects, though the direction and magnitude depends on the size of … would decrease efficiency and protect growers. -- Contracts ; moral hazard ; agricultural policy ; producer protection …