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Pesticides and Productivity – a Study of Vegetable Farming in Nepal
Jha, Ratna Kumar; Regmi, Adhrit Prasad - eSocialSciences - 2010
effectiveness of pesticides in reducing crop losses amongst vegetable farmers in Nepal. …In Nepal, agriculture is commercializing day by day and levels of agro-chemical use are growing. This is beginning to … raise concerns about the health and environmental impacts of farm chemicals such as pesticides.The brief looks at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480371
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How does crop insurance influence pesticide use? : evidence from French farms
Enjolras, Geoffroy; Aubert, Magali - In: Review of agricultural, food and environmental studies 101 (2020) 4, pp. 461-485
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418124
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Do Dropouts Benefit from Training Programs? Korean Evidence Employing Methods for Continuous Treatments
Choe, Chung; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Lee, Sang-Jun - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Failure of participants to complete training programs is pervasive in existing active labor market programs both in developed and developing countries. The proportion of dropouts in prototypical programs ranges from 10 to 50 percent of all participants. From a policy perspective, it is of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359867
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Exports and productivity growth: first evidence from a continuous treatment approach
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - 2007
A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible reason for this result is that most previous studies are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263815
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Public support intensity and company R&D performance: Evidence from a dose-response model
Cerulli, Giovanni; Potì, Bianca - 2014
This paper presents an original econometric model for estimating a dose-response function through a regression approach when: (i) treatment is continuous, (ii) individuals may react heterogeneously to observable confounders, and (iii) selection-into-treatment may be potentially endogenous. After...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400044
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The Export-Growth Relationship: Estimating a Dose-Response Function
Fryges, Helmut - 2006
The relationship between individual firms? export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the economic literature. However, most studies from the field of economics only distinguish between exporting and non-exporting companies, using the firms? export status as a binary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297536
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Exports and Productivity Growth: First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - 2007
A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible reason for this result is that most previous studies are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297912
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Which is the Right Dose of EU Cohesion Policy for Economic Growth?
Mohl, Philipp; Hagen, Tobias - 2008
The current empirical literature on the impact of EU Cohesion Policy on the economic growth rates of the European regions mainly relies on functional form assumptions. However, it is ex ante not clear which functional form is appropriate with regard to the relationship between structural funds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298685
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Do dropouts benefit from training programs? Korean evidence employing methods for continuous treatments
Choe, Chung; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Lee, Sang-jun - 2011
Failure of participants to complete training programs is pervasive in existing active labor market programs both in developed and developing countries. The proportion of dropouts in prototypical programs ranges from 10 to 50 percent of all participants. From a policy perspective, it is of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282210
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Measuring dynamic effects of remittances on poverty and inequality with evidence from Kosovo
Arapi-Gjini, Arjola; Möllers, Judith; Herzfeld, Thomas - In: Eastern European Economics 58 (2020) 4, pp. 283-308
This paper investigates dynamic effects of remittances on households’ poverty and income distribution. Using state-of-the-art matching techniques, we measure impacts based on counterfactual scenarios, and make a step forward by applying for the first time a dose-response function approach to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012261559