was implemented in Malawi over a 12-month period, randomly assigning cassava-producing households to one of four … additionally demonstrates likely gross overestimation in international and ministerial statistics on cassava yields in Malawi. For …

-generating activities and restricting access to inputs, respectively?affect female farm productivity more deeply than male productivity. The … productivity gap. The paper shows empirically that agricultural labor productivity is on average 44 percent lower on plots managed …

agricultural productivity. The empirical studies on the gender gap, however, have frequently used data that were limited regarding …-representative analysis of the gender gap in Malawi, and decomposes it, for the first time, at the mean and at selected points of the … agricultural productivity distribution into (i) a portion driven by gender differences in levels of observable attributes (the …

This study uses data from the complete computerization of agricultural leases in Malawi, a georeferenced farm survey ….5 million hectares, or 25 percent, of Malawi's agricultural area is under agricultural estates, analysis shows that 70 percent … US$35 millon per year or 5 percent of public spending and, by decreasing tenure security, may affect the productivity of …

productivity. The fact that social interactions mainly occur within castes in rural India provides tools to show that the observed … 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 …