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Smallholders, Market Failures, and Agricultural Production: Evidence from India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
reallocate labor across activities less in response to intra-seasonal crop price changes than do non-smallholders. A … counterfactual exercise indicates smallholders could increase revenue by almost nine percent if they were to reallocate labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322481
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Air Pollution and Agricultural Productivity in a Developing Country
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2023
, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …-intensive crops, indicating that the pollution works at least partly through direct effects on labor productivity. Finally, combining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377219
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Sectoral Wage Gaps and Gender in Rural India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2021
local non-farm employment opportunities interacting with barriers to labor mobility for women but not men. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597537
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Sectoral wage gaps and gender in rural India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2021
local non-farm employment opportunities interacting with barriers to labor mobility for women but not men. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519100
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Spatially heterogeneous effects of a public works program
Merfeld, Joshua D. - In: Journal of development economics 136 (2019), pp. 151-167
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229671
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Smallholders, market failures, and agricultural production: evidence from India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
reallocate labor across activities less in response to intra-seasonal crop price changes than do non-smallholders. A … counterfactual exercise indicates smallholders could increase revenue by almost nine percent if they were to reallocate labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290639
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Air pollution and agricultural productivity in a developing country
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2023
, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …-intensive crops, indicating that the pollution works at least partly through direct effects on labor productivity. Finally, combining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014315725
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Air Pollution and Agricultural Productivity in a Developing Country
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2023
I document externalities in the agricultural sector of India due to air pollution. Using variation in pollution induced by changes in wind, I show that higher levels of particulate matter lead to decreased agricultural productivity, with changes in productivity of 10 percent being common....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347607
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Labor elasticities, market failures, and misallocation : evidence from Indian agriculture
Merfeld, Joshua D. - In: Agricultural economics : the journal of the … 54 (2023) 5, pp. 623-637
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014432214
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Sectoral wage gaps and gender in rural India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - In: American journal of agricultural economics 105 (2023) 2, pp. 434-452
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306182