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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 …

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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. …

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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 …

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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

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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....

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