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Smallholders, market failures, and agricultural production: evidence from India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290639
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Spatial differences in stunting and household agricultural production in South Africa : (re-)examining the links using national panel survey data
Otterbach, Steffen; Rogan, Michael - 2017
results suggest that, conditional on household income, subsistence farming is associated with a lower probability of stunting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732006
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Rural households in a changing climate
Baez, Javier E.; Kronick, Dorothy; Mason, Andrew D. - 2012
from existing empirical literature to compose an initial picture of household-level strategies for adapting to climate …, their adaptive capacity is insufficient for the task of maintaining - let alone improving - household welfare. We describe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629134
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014315725
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Regulatory barriers and entry in developing economies
Bennett, John (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2006
We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to 'excessive' entry, a licence fee can increase welfare by discouraging entry. However, in the presence of a licence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328066
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Middlemen, non-profits, and poverty
Chau, Nancy H.; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - 2009
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a "fair-trade" premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897511
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Informality as a stepping stone : entrepreneurial entry in a developing economy
Bennett, John (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2007
We model decisions with respect to formality or informality for entrepreneurs in a new industry for a developing economy. We show that informality allows a leader to explore, without significant sunk costs, the potential profitability of the industry; that is, informality may be a stepping...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003557360
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Financial literacy and food security in extremely vulnerable households
Millimet, Daniel L.; McDonough, Ian K.; Fomby, Thomas B. - 2015
literacy as a potential salient determinant of household-level food security. In light of the recent financial crisis and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283188
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Little divergence in America : market access and demographic transition in the United States
Guldi, Melanie; Rahman, Ahmed S. - 2022
This paper assesses the causal impact of greater market access on demographic transition during the latter half of the 19th century in the United States. We construct new measures of fertility changes and measures of railroad access at the county level from 1850 - 1890. We are able to document...
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Do private household transfers to the elderly respond to public pension benefits? : evidence from rural China
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019
Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the standard of living for the elderly. The often-overlooked mechanism of intergenerational transfers, however, can dampen these intended policy effects, as adult children who make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062263