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 …

using a non-parametric approach. The analysis focuses on marketing loan and pre-1986 deficiency payment programs; farmers … in years farmers received program payments. Based on the CIR factors, the increase in the marketing margin was $0.23/cwt …. In both cases the increase was approximately 10 percent of the estimated marketing margin in years farmers received …

testing based on household consumption choices and implement the procedure using data from rural Indonesia. Relative to … not rejected for larger farmers but is rejected for small farmers. The tests are straightforward to implement and the …

capital needs of farmers, and (b) delegating selection of borrowers for individual liability loans to local trader … productive, whereas the GBL scheme attracted farmers that were riskier on average and highly heterogeneous in terms of …

households' ability to smooth consumption over the cropping cycle, but also affect labor markets if liquidity-constrained farmers … and agricultural production, we conducted a two-year randomized controlled trial with small-scale farmers in rural Zambia …. Our results indicate that lowering the cost of accessing liquidity at the time of the year when farmers are most …