rainfall shocks on rice output at the district level. Our analysis makes use of local meteorological data on rainfall in … combination with government administrative data on district-level rice output in the 1990s. We find that deviations from mean … local rainfall are positively associated with district-level rice output. 10% higher rainfall leads metric tons of rice …

which a procurement process was introduced that allowed citizens to bid to take over the implementation of a subsidized rice … reported the quality of the rice improved. Bidding committees may have avoided quality problems by choosing bidders who had …

covering the 2008 global rice crisis—a shock triggered by an Indian rice export ban—we find that household hoarding anticipated …

the impact of phone-based monitoring on a program that transferred nearly a billion dollars to 5.7 million Indian farmers … beneficiaries. This led to a 7.6% reduction in the number of farmers who did not receive their transfers. The program was highly …

This paper explores the idea that competitive seed systems may underserve farmers in small, agro-ecological niches …, leaving those farmers less productive and poorer than they need be. We develop a theoretical model of the confluence of demand … these seed varieties increased farmer yields and revenues, both for better-resourced farmers (who used non-adapted hybrids …

decline. Crop prices collapsed, reducing farmers' incomes. And across U.S. states and Ohio counties, auto sales fell most in … crop-growing areas. The large spending response may be explained by farmers' indebtedness. Reasonable assumptions about the … marginal propensity to spend of farmers relative to nonfarmers and the pass-through of farm prices to retail prices imply that …

In an experiment providing fertilizer grants to women rice farmers in Mali, we found that women who received fertilizer …. This highlights that farmers respond to an increase in availability of one input by re-optimizing other inputs, making it … small compared to other sources of variation. This may make it difficult for farmers to observe the impact of fertilizer on …

the optimum subsidy scheme that can insure a given take-up for a new weather insurance for rice producers. We build a …