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The Impact of Rainfall on Rice Output in Indonesia
Levine, David I. - 2014
We estimate the impact of weather variation on agricultural output in Indonesia by examining the impact of local 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...
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Innovation, Growth and Structural Change in American Agriculture
Alston, Julian M. - 2020
U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today's agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms are much larger and more specialized, supplying a...
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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 stress tolerant seeds can separately and partially offset this risk effect. In this study, we explore whether the complementarities between these two risk management technologies can...
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Filling a Niche? The Maize Productivity Impacts of Adaptive Breeding by a Local Seed Company in Kenya
Bird, Samuel S. - 2020
This paper explores the idea that a competitive seed system may systematically underserve farmers in small, agro … an under-serviced equilibrium. To study the empirical veracity of this model, we study the disruption of the maize seed … capital allowed a local seed company to expand and target a niche agro-ecological zone with adaptively-bred maize varieties. A …
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Subsidy Policies and Insurance Demand
Cai, Jing - 2016
Many new products presumed to be privately beneficial to the poor have a high price elasticity of demand and ultimately zero take-up rate at market price. This has led governments and donors to provide subsidies to increase take-up, with the concern of trying to limit their cost. In this study,...
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Profitability of Fertilizer : Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali
Beaman, Lori A. - 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. This highlights that farmers respond to an...
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Mechanizing Agriculture
Caunedo, Julieta; Kala, Namrata - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Economic activity in developing countries is labor-intensive, low-scale, and family run, with substantial family managerial time spent supervising hired labor. We use a randomized control trial that subsidizes access to rental equipment markets to study the impact of the adoption of mechanized...
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Harvesting the Rain : The Adoption of Environmental Technologies in the Sahel
Aker, Jenny C.; Jack, B. Kelsey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Many agricultural and environmental technologies require large upfront investments in exchange for longer-term benefits. This time profile of costs and benefits makes adoption particularly sensitive to liquidity and credit constraints, which are prevalent in low-income settings. We test the...
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Agrarian Origins of Individualism and Collectivism
Fiszbein, Martín; Jung, Yeonha; Vollrath, Dietrich - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the influence of agricultural labor intensity on individualism across U.S. counties. To measure historical labor intensity in agriculture we combine data on crop-specific labor requirements and county-specific crop mix around 1900. To address endogeneity we exploit climate-induced...
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From Learning to Doing : Diffusion of Agricultural Innovations in Guinea-Bissau
Caeiro, Rute Martins - 2019
This paper analyzes the role of social networks in the diffusion of knowledge and adoption of cultivation techniques, from trainees to the wider community, in the context of an extension project in Guinea-Bissau. In order to test for social learning, we exploit a detailed census of households...
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