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loans on production and investment decisions, input use, and yields. Using a multiple treatment methodology, it explores the … important as lack of funding for new investment in capital for rural producers in Mexico. Producers benefit from easing their …
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Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited … money as a tool to promote agricultural investment. For this purpose, we designed and conducted a field experiment with a … interest was being paid. It also increased agricultural investment in fertilizer, although there was no change in investment in …
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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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Small-scale farming remains the primary source of income for a majority of the population in developing countries. While most farmers primarily work on their own fields, off-farm labor is common among small-scale farmers. A growing literature suggests that off-farm labor is not the result of...
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, where we observe lower agricultural activity and investment. At the same time, remittances received and welfare of rural …
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natives. Finally, we find that it is unlikely that immigration's effect on agriculture slowed Brazil's structural …
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This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers...
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Despite a vast literature documenting the negative effects of climate change on various socio-economic outcomes, little, if any, evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher...
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This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries and their high-income trade partners between 1995...
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credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having …
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