results suggest that, conditional on household income, subsistence farming is associated with a lower probability of stunting …

productivity. In particular, we find that doubling agricultural credits generates around 4-5 percent increase in agricultural … productivity. We use two different agricultural production measures: (i) the agricultural component of GDP and (ii) agricultural … labor productivity. Employing a combination of panel-data and instrumental- variable methods, we show that agricultural …

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 negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …-intensive crops, indicating that the pollution works at least partly through direct effects on labor productivity. Finally, combining …

activities within the household. However, this prediction may not hold in the presence of risk. Using data on farm plots and non … across farm and non-farm production. We control for many household and production characteristics, including household fixed … access to insurance of farming activities and wage employment opportunities could increase total household income. …

Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for …

This paper provides evidence of the long-run effects of a permanent increase in agricultural productivity on conflict … the period between 1400 and 1900 CE. For variation in permanent improvements in agricultural productivity, we exploit the …

droughts, and are consequently unable to cope fully with the adverse agricultural productivity shock. Our findings can be …

China's household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the agesaving profile has become U … household savings rate and the U-shaped age-profile of savings. -- China ; household savings ; income uncertainty ; pension … permanent variance of household income was stable, the transitory variance rose sharply. Based on these estimates, we calibrate …