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The objective of this study is to estimate the net effect of education on technology adoption for U.S. farmers. Using …
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The emphasis of education as a driving force for the growth of agricultural productivity can be dated back to the early … consequently obscure the true contribution of education in agricultural production. This study presents a more efficient version to … testing the hypothesis that education plays a key role in agricultural development using a switching regression model. Because …
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The emphasis of education as a driving force for the growth of agricultural productivity can be dated back to the early … and consequently obscure the true contribution of education in agricultural production. This study presents a more … efficient version to testing the hypothesis that education plays a key role in agricultural development using a switching …
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World grains prices dramatically increased between 2007 and 2008, but rice prices especially surged. Utilizing the much larger spike in rice prices than in wheat, this article compares the response of Indian households consuming rice as the staple grain to households consuming wheat. Households...
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Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
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the income. The literature appears that among the determinant of this disparity, besides historical factors, the education … variable education and your impacts on the income of the work. The adopted model will be a hybrid of the considered square … minima proposed by Hoffmann and Scampini (1996) and Mincer function, trying to capture the effects of the variable education …
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transition to non-agricultural labor markets depends on the distance to economic centers and household education. In particular …, post-primary education significantly increases the benefit from the local spatial connectivity improvement in remote areas … and labor transition to non-agricultural sectors. Education and local road quality are complementary, mutually increasing …
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subsidies. In this paper we provide a new explanation for this puzzle, namely the positive impact of subsidies on the education … level of farmers’ children. If farmers are credit constrained, they may underinvest in their children’s education. By … increasing farmers’ incomes, subsidies increase investment in education. If more educated children are less willing to become …
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transition to non-agricultural labor markets depends on the distance to economic centers and household education. In particular …, post-primary education significantly increases the benefit from the local spatial connectivity improvement in remote areas … and labor transition to non-agricultural sectors. Education and local road quality are complementary, mutually increasing …
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