frequency of droughts. The latter two effects are particularly strong in Sub-Sahara Africa where low-tech rain-fed agriculture …

frequency of droughts. The latter two effects are particularly strong in Sub-Sahara Africa where low-tech rain-fed agriculture …

While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent … cross-country regressions analyzing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect an insignificant … attainment, we show that education indeed has a highly significant, positive effect on agricultural productivity which is robust …