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Outsourcing and Technological Change
Bartel, Ann P. - 2014
We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firmﾒs expectation of technological change. As the pace of innovations in production technologies increases, the less time the firm has to amortize the sunk costs associated with purchasing and...
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Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment : Thirty Years on
MacLeod, W. Bentley; Malcomson, James M. - 2023
"Implicit Contracts, incentive compatibility, and involuntary unemployment" (MacLeod and Malcomson, 1989) remains our most highly cited work. We briefly review the development of this paper and of our subsequent related work, and conclude with reflections on the future of relational contract...
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Rural Households in a Changing Climate
Baez, Javier - 2012
, their adaptive capacity is insufficient for the task of maintaining – let alone improving – household welfare. We describe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099689
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How Sustainable are Benefits from Extension for Smallholder Farmers? Evidence from a Randomized Phase-Out of the BRAC Program in Uganda
Fishman, Ram - 2017
Many development programs are based on short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or because it is assumed that impacts persist post program termination ("sustainability"). Using a novel randomized phase-out research method, we provide experimental tests of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960248
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823301
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Can Agricultural Extension and Input Support Be Discontinued? Evidence from a Randomized Phaseout in Uganda
Fishman, Ram - 2019
Many development programs are short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or an assumption of impact sustainability. Using a novel randomized phaseout research method, we provide experimental tests of phaseout effects of an extension program designed for women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865851
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Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers
Naudé, Wim - 2015
African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a thorough reappraisal of the sector. What are less well understood, however, are the drivers that reallocate scarce human and physical resources across occupations and space, and...
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Can Crop Purchase Programs Reduce Poverty and Improve Welfare in Rural Communities? Evidence from the Food Reserve Agency in Zambia
Fung, Winnie - 2015
cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects … effects of the FRA's maize marketing activities on smallholder farm household welfare. Results suggest that FRA activities … have positive direct welfare effects on the small minority of smallholder households that are able to sell to it. However …
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Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa : Patterns and Determinants
Nagler, Paula - 2014
We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural enterprises tend to be small, informal household...
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Is Women's Ownership of Land a Panacea in Developing Countries? Evidence from Land-Owning Farm Households in Malawi
Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2014
extent of land owned (or de facto controlled) by males, and (b) and cultivation of cash crops increases household welfare …, on its own, increase welfare, if women do not have access to complementary resources that are needed to generate income …
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