productivity. The fact that social interactions mainly occur within castes in rural India provides tools to show that the observed …This paper exploits the social organization of India to revisit the question of education spillovers in farm … correlation between farm productivity and neighbors' education is likely to be a spillover effect. In particular, there are no …

This paper provides evidence on the impacts of agricultural productivity on employment growth and structural … village sample leads to underestimation of agriculture's role in employment growth and transformation of non-farm activities …. Using rainfall as an instrument for agricultural productivity, empirical analysis finds a significant positive effect of …

This paper provides evidence on the effects of agricultural productivity on wage rates, labor supply to market oriented … activities, and labor allocation between own farming and wage labor in agriculture. To guide the empirical work, this paper …-marketed services at home (`home production'). The model predicts positive effects of a favorable agricultural productivity shock on …

This study estimates and compares the effects of small and large irrigation dams on cropland productivity in South … although large dams increase cropland productivity downstream, they have a negative effect on cropland within the vicinity …

Agriculture has made major contributions to China's economic growth and poverty reduction, but the literature has … rarely focused on the institutional factors that might underpin such structural transformation and productivity. This paper … government land reallocations and formal land-use certificates on agricultural productivity growth, as well as the likelihood of …

on Agriculture. In addition, the paper (i) develops internationally comparable measures of overall agro-ecological crop …

This paper uses the recently collected Living Standard Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture Initiative …

, and Uganda as case studies to explore the potential for growth in agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism in these … intensive manufactures could contribute a fraction of aggregate growth, it is agriculture, agribusiness, and services that will … contribute the lion?s share because of an unprecedented convergence of technologies. Industrialized agriculture and agri …