Over the past five years or so, applied economists have been relying increasingly on subjective perceptions to explain behavior. In Bellemare (2009a, 2009b) I elicited from landlords subjective perception of tenurial insecurity as a result of the land tenancy contract they signed with their...

This paper tests whether agricultural extension and imperfect supervision - conflated here into the number of visits by a technical assistant - increase productivity at the margin in a sample of contract farming arrangements between a processing firm and small agricultural producers in...