This paper models inorganic fertilizer and improved maize varieties adoption as joint decisions. Controlling for household, plot-level, institutional and other factors, the study found that household adoption decisions on inorganic fertilizer and improved maize varieties were inter-dependent....

We develop new tests for the completeness of rural labor markets. The tests are based on a theoretical link between a shortage or surplus in the labor market and asymmetric responses to changes in household composition over time. We develop auxiliary tests to distinguish other types of market...