Showing 1 - 10 of 30,543
This study analyzes productivity differentials between men and women in the peasant agriculture in Nepal. Both Cobb … gradually a binding constraint in production. Male managed farms produce more output per hectare with higher command in market … input use, obtaining credit, and receiving agricultural extension services than female managed farms. In contrast, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787019
. Second, agriculture appears to be more of a survival strategy than part of a poverty exit strategy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755013
Although there is a very large literature on the links between farm size and farm productivity in Indian agriculture … gap. We use panel data on a large number of farms for two Indian states to estimate a translog production frontier for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005368595
classic debate on farm size and productivity in the 21st century. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367277
This article reviews the different methods of constructing multilateral output and productivity indices for agriculture … the links between productivity growth, per capita income, and price levels. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486521
, specialisation and farm size, to draw conclusions to the competitiveness of the agricultural sector of Eastern Germany. It has … addition, the efficiency of numerous farms in Sachsen-Anhalt were affected negatively by strengthened soil purchase, while in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008597139
In this paper, we assess the inheritance of human capital in the early modern period with a comprehensive dataset covering eight countries in Europe and Latin America. We focus on the within-household process of human capital formation. Gregory Clark suggested that the wealthy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010857357
This paper assesses the impact of pollution on worker productivity by relating exogenous daily variations in ozone with … productivity of agricultural workers as recorded under piece rate contracts. We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below … federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity. These results suggest that, in contrast to common …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010815636
productivity using a quantitative sectoral model featuring a distribution of farms. Measured aggregate factors (capital, land …, economy-wide productivity) account for ? of the observed differences in farm size and productivity. Policies and institutions … that misallocate resources across farms have the potential to account for the remaining differences. Exploiting within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010815750
This paper investigates the effects of human capital on productivity using micro panel data of rural households in the … between farm and non-farm sectors - wages and productivity in non-farm activities rise with education at an increasing rate …, whereas those in agriculture respond only to the primary education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005783986