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The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights : Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier

Alston, Lee J. - 1996

effects on agricultural investment on Brazilian frontiers. We use survey data from 1992 and 1993 from the state of Par with … data on the characteristics of the settlers, land tenure, land agencies involved, land values, and investment. We then turn …. The empirical findings support the predictions of the theory regarding the effects of title and investment on land value …

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Bundling Stress Tolerant Seeds and Insurance for More Resilient and Productive Small-scale Agriculture

Boucher, Stephen; Carter, Michael R.; Flatnes, Jon Einar; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Risk often inhibits on-farm investment by smallholder farmers. Recent evidence indicates that index insurance and … control villages, where shocks have persistent effects that reduce future investment and productivity, those with access to …

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Can Smallholder Extension Transform African Agriculture?

Deutschmann, Joshua W. - 2019

Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lags far behind all other regions of the world. A long list of policy experiments has yielded more evidence on what fails than on what works. We analyze a randomized control trial of a rare scaled-up success story: One Acre Fund's small...

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Are Small Farms Really more Productive than Large Farms?

Sanchez, Fernando M. Aragon - 2019

We revisit the long-standing empirical evidence of an inverse relationship between farm size and productivity using rich microdata from Uganda. We show that farm size is negatively related to yields (output per hectare), as commonly found in the literature, but positively related to farm...

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Insurance Contracts when Individuals “Greatly Value” Certainty : Results from a Field Experiment in Burkina Faso

Serfilippi, Elena - 2018

In discussing the paradoxical violation of expected utility theory that now bears his name, Maurice Allais noted that individuals tend to "greatly value" payoffs that are certain. Allais' observation would seem to imply that people will undervalue insurance relative to the predictions of...

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The Spillover Impact of Index Insurance on Agricultural Investment by Cotton Farmers in Burkina Faso

Stoeffler, Quentin - 2020

This paper examines whether agricultural insurance can boost investment by small scale farmers in West Africa. We … impact of insurance on cotton, but, consistent with microeconomic theory, we find significant spillover impacts on investment … that limited its impacts. Overall, this study suggests a promising role of index insurance for stimulating investment, but …

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Productivity Dispersion and Persistence Among the World's Most Numerous Firms

Maue, Casey C. - 2020

A vast firm productivity literature finds that otherwise similar firms differ widely in their productivity and that these differences persist through time, with important implications for the broader macroeconomy. These stylized facts derive largely from studies of manufacturing firms in wealthy...

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Small Farms, Externalities, and the Dust Bowl of the 1930's

Hansen, Zeynep K. - 2003

We provide a new and more complete analysis of the origins of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, one of the most severe environmental crises in North America in the 20th Century. Severe drought and wind erosion hit the Great Plains in 1930 and lasted through 1940. There were similar droughts in the...

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Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets and Agricultural Production

Fink, Günther - 2018

Many rural households in low and middle income countries continue to rely on small-scale agriculture as their primary source of income. In the absence of irrigation, income arrives only once or twice per year, and has to cover consumption and input needs until the subsequent harvest. We develop...

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Sell Low and Buy High : Arbitrage and Local Price Effects in Kenyan Markets

Burke, Marshall - 2018

sell at higher prices, increasing farm revenues and generating a return on investment of 28%. To understand general …

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