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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Osei, Robert Darko; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

The investment decisions of small‐scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana...

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Market Structure, Outgrower contracs and Farm Output. Evidence from Cotton Reforms in Zambia

Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This paper investigates the dynamic impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm output in rural Zambia. Following liberalization and the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board, the sector developed an outgrower scheme whereby cotton firms provided credit, access to inputs and output...

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Forecasting Profitability

Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...

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Profitability of Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali

Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Beaman, Lori A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

In an experiment providing fertilizer grants to women rice farmers in Mali, we found that women who received fertilizer … increased both the quantity of fertilizer they used on their plots and complementary inputs such as herbicides and hired labor … level of output, we find no evidence that profits increased. Our results suggest that fertilizer's impact on profits is …

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Self-Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali

Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Beaman, Lori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We partnered with a micro‐lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no- loan control …

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Selection and Comparative Advantage in Technology Adoption

Suri, Tavneet - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

This paper investigates an empirical puzzle in technology adoption for developing countries: the low adoption rates of technologies like hybrid maize that increase average farm profits dramatically. I offer a simple explanation for this: benefits and costs of technologies are heterogeneous, so...

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Farms, Families, and Markets: New Evidence on Agricultural Labor Markets

Thomas, Duncan; LaFave, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

The farm household model has played a central role in improving the understanding of small-scale agricultural households and non-farm enterprises. Under the assumptions that all current and future markets exist and that farmers treat all prices as given, the model simplifies households’...

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Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves

Miller, Grant; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper examines whether an intra-household externality prevents adoption of a technology with substantial implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives...

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Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network

Duflo, Esther; Jackson, Matthew O.; Banerjee, Abhijit; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Can we identify the members of a community who are best- placed to diffuse information simply by asking a random sample of individuals? We show that boundedly-rational individuals can, simply by tracking sources of gossip, identify those who are most central in a network according to "diffusion...

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State vs Consumer Regulation: An Evaluation of Two Road Safety Interventions in Kenya

Jack, William; Habyarimana, James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper compares the relative impact of two road safety interventions in the Kenyan minibus or matatu sector: a top down set of regulatory requirements known as the Michuki Rules and a consumer empowerment intervention. We use very detailed insurance claims data on three classes of vehicles...

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