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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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Health insurance coverage, government payments, and labor allocation

Miller, Cristina D. M.; Mishra, Ashok K. - 2022

The aging of the farmer population has led to concern about a shortage of beginning farmers and ranchers. This study investigates the impact of health insurance coverage and participation in government and private insurance programs on off-farm labor allocation decisions of beginning...

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Market Facilitation Program payments, employer-sponsored health insurance coverage and off-farm employment

Mishra, Ashok K.; Aveiga-Villacis, Alexis; Miller, … - 2022

About two-thirds of U.S. farm households are employed off the farm. Off-farm sources represent 85 percent of the income earned by the average farm household and have turned into their main source of health insurance coverage. Farmers receive various government farm program payments, including...

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Building trust in rural producer organizations in Senegal : results from a randomized controlled trial

Bernard, Tanguy; Frölich, Markus; Landmann, Andreas; … - 2015

Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural produce through producer organizations. We conduct a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Senegal in which we vary the number and the type of smallholder farmers - members...

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The performance of consumers' cooperatives in America

Pencavel, John H. - 2020

A series of observations on various types of cooperatives is constructed from intermittent surveys between 1920 and 1950 and, where possible, these are extended to recent years. These observations allow several questions to be taken up: how well have organizations that resemble consumers'...

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Welfare effect and elite capture in agricultural cooperatives intervention : evidence from Ethiopian villages

Gelo, Dambala; Muchapondwa, Edwin; Shimeles, Abebe; … - 2019

This paper evaluates the impact of the Purchase 4 Progress (P4P) intervention implemented by World Food Program in Ethiopia on per capita income as well as across sub-social groups. The intervention is intended to improve the market power of smallholder farmers through cooperatives that has the...

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Minimum income support systems as elements of crisis resilience in Europe

Eichhorst, Werner; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; Marx, Paul; … - 2023

This paper studies the role of social policies in different European welfare states regarding minimum income protection and active inclusion. The core focus lies on crisis resilience, i.e. the capacity of social policy arrangements to contain poverty and inequality and avoid exclusion before,...

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Wage and productivity dispersion in US manufacturing : the role of computer investment

Dunne, Timothy; Foster, Lucia; Haltiwanger, John C.; … - 2002

hypotheses. First, that most of the recent increase in the dispersion of wages and productivity has occurred across … establishments and these changes are linked. Second, that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across establishments is …-plant measures of wage and productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades; and (4) a significant …

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Job reallocation and productivity growth under alternative economic systems and policies : evidence from the Soviet transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002

How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … little relationship to relative productivity across firms and sectors. Since liberalization began, the pace, heterogeneity …, and productivity effects of job flows have increased substantially. The increases occurred more quickly in rapidly …

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Management as a technology?

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2016

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … cross-country total factor productivity differences. …

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