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The impact of extension services on farming households in Western Kenya: A propensity score approach
Deschamps-Laporte, Jean-Philippe - 2013
fertilizer dosage by 23.8%; IV) productivity per acre is not affected by the treatment; V) treated households also were less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654389
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Market failure and land concentration
Ünal, Fatma Gül - 2009
Utilizing a 2002 household-level World Bank Survey for rural Turkey, this paper explores the link between concentration of land ownership and rural factor markets. We construct a unique index that measures market malfunctioning based on the neoclassical model linking land and labor endowments...
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Peeing out of poverty? Human fertilizer and the productivity of farming households
Pettersson, Jan; Wikström, Johan - 2013
In many parts of the world, soils poor in nutrients are farmed with little addition of fertilizer, further depleting … sanitation and at recycling nutrients as fertilizer. This human fertilizer may act as a substitute for artificial fertilizers … investment program. We do not find any support for human fertilizer being used complementary, although the effect on yields …
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Agricultural productivity in Burkina Faso: The role of gender and risk attitudes
Sepahvand, Mohammad H. - 2019
This study is an empirical investigation of how individual risk attitudes influence the agricultural productivity of men and women in a sub-Saharan African country, Burkina Faso. By analyzing a large representative panel survey of farmers from 2014 and 2015, the results indicate lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012013525
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Agricultural productivity in Burkina Faso: The role of gender and risk attitudes
Sepahvand, Mohammad H. - 2022
This study analyzes how risk attitudes influence the agricultural productivity of men and women in a subSaharan African country, Burkina Faso. By using a large representative panel survey of farmers, the results show that as female farmers increase risk taking, the productivity of female-owned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318982
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Trade and geography in the origins and spread of Islam
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2012
This research examines the economic origins and spread of Islam in the Old World and uncovers two empirical regularities. First, Muslim countries and ethnic groups exhibit highly unequal regional agricultural endowments. Second, Muslim adherence is systematically higher along the pre-Islamic...
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Zur Reduzierung niederschlagsbedingter Produktionsrisiken mit Wetterderivaten
Mußhoff, Oliver; Odening, Martin; Xu, Wei - 2005
In diesem Beitrag wird eine Niederschlagsoption unter Anwendung der Burn-Analysis, der Index-Value-Simulation und der Daily-Simulation bewertet. Dazu wird auf der Grundlage empirischer Wetterdaten aus Deutschland (Niederschlagsmengen aus Brandenburg) ein Tagesniederschlagsmodell entwickelt....
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Distributional biases in the analysis of climate change
Skott, Peter; Davis, Leila - 2011
The economic analysis of global warming is dominated by models based on optimal growth theory. These representative-agent models have an intrinsic distributional bias in favor of the rich. The bias is compounded by the use of revenue-neutrality in the allocation of emission permits. The result...
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Positional goods, climate change and the social returns to investment
Davis, Leila; Skott, Peter - 2011
The economic analysis of global warming is dominated by models based on optimal growth theory. This approach can generate biases in the presence of positional goods and status effects. We show that by ignoring these direct consumption externalities, integrated assessment models overestimate the...
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Supporting Indian farmers: Price support or direct income/investment support?
Gulati, Ashok; Chatterjee, Tirtha; Hussain, Siraj - 2018
With increasing farm distress in the wake of falling farm prices in 2017, the State Government of Madhya Pradesh (GoMP) came out with an innovative scheme called Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana (BBY), a price deficiency payment (PDP) scheme, to support farmers. It covered eight Kharif crops in 2017-18...
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