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Sectoral wage gaps and gender in rural India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2021
Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I document three important findings. First, there is clear evidence of sorting into sectors, with very large differences in worker human capital across the farm and non-farm sectors and...
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Forecasting profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - 2013
We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
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Smallholders, market failures, and agricultural production: evidence from India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders reallocate labor across activities less in response to...
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Rediscovering the Virgin Lands : agricultural investment and rural livelihoods in a Eurasian frontier area
Petrick, Martin; Wandel, Jürgen; Karsten, Katharina - 2012
brought outside investment and management to this region. With stable employment in agriculture, real consumption spending of …
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Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size
Foster, Andrew D. - 2017
This paper seeks to explain the U-shaped relationship between farm productivity and farm scale - the initial fall in productivity as farm size increases from its lowest levels and the continuous upward trajectory as scale increases after a threshold - observed across the world and in low-income...
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Framework for Assessing Environmental Management in Agriculture
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2012
the forms and efficiency of environmental management in agriculture. First, it defines environmental management as a … environmental management in agriculture as eco-management associated with agricultural production. Second, it specifies spectrum of …. Third, it suggests stages in analysis and improvement of environmental management in agriculture including: identification …
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Does Survey Mode Matter? Comparing In-Person and Phone Agricultural Surveys in India
Anderson, Ellen; Lybbert, Travis J.; Shenoy, Amish; … - 2023
Ubiquitous mobile phone ownership makes phone surveying an attractive method of low-cost data collection. We explore differences between in-person and phone survey measures of agricultural production collected for an impact evaluation in India. Phone responses have greater mean and variance, a...
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Posh spice or scary spice? : resource booms, wealth, and human capital across ages
Boone, Christopher; Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E. - 2024
We examine the impact of a six-fold increase in the global vanilla price on smallholder vanilla-farming households in Madagascar. The price increase leads to sizable gains in household assets and significant improvements in adult psychological well-being, cognitive performance, and optimism...
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Determinants of Rural Poverty : An Empirical Study of Socio-Economic Factors in Jharkhand, India
Singh, Krishna M. - 2013
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Rural Labour Employment and Livelihoods in Tribal Villages of Eastern India
kumar, Abhay - 2020
This study examines the changing employment and livelihood patterns of rural labour households in tribal villages of eastern India. The study is based on the high frequency panel data collected under the ICAR-ICRISAT project on Village Dynamics Studies in eastern India from 2010 to 2014. The...
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