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Air Pollution and Agricultural Productivity in a Developing Country
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2023
I document externalities in the agricultural sector of India due to air pollution. Using variation in pollution induced by changes in wind, I show that higher levels of particulate matter lead to decreased agricultural productivity, with changes in productivity of 10 percent being common....
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Smallholders, market failures, and agricultural production: evidence from India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
reallocate labor across activities less in response to intra-seasonal crop price changes than do non-smallholders. A … counterfactual exercise indicates smallholders could increase revenue by almost nine percent if they were to reallocate labor …
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The agricultural mechanization in Africa : micro-level analysis of state drivers and effects
Kirui, Oliver K. - 2019
mechanization on use of household and hired labor. Finally, agricultural mechanization significantly raises the productivity of …
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The gendered effects of climate change: production shocks and labor response in agriculture
Afridi, Farzana; Mahajan, Kanika; Sangwan, Nikita - 2021
gender-differentiated labor impacts of droughts resulting from lower precipitation using unique individual-level panel data … highlight the gendered impact of climate change, potentially exacerbating extant gender gaps in the labor market. …
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The gendered effects of droughts : production shocks and labor response in agriculture
Afridi, Farzana; Mahajan, Kanika; Sangwan, Nikita - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 78 (2022), pp. 1-16
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Air pollution and agricultural productivity in a developing country
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2023
, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …-intensive crops, indicating that the pollution works at least partly through direct effects on labor productivity. Finally, combining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014315725
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Agricultural aid, agricultural productivity and its volatility : a note
Alvi, Eskander; Mukherjee, Debasri; Squires, James - In: Bulletin of applied economics 5 (2018) 2, pp. 1-11
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An action plan for developing agricultural input markets in Zambia
Bumb, Balu L. (contributor) - 2006
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Re-estimating South African agricultural output value, quantity and price aggregates, 1910-2010
Liebenberg, Frikkie; Pardey, Philip G.; Beddow, Jason; … - In: Agrekon : agricultural economics research, policy and … 54 (2015) 4, pp. 1-27
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Estimating the impact of climate change on agricultural production : accounting for technology heterogeneity across countries
Exenberger, Andreas; Pondorfer, Andreas; Wolters, Maik H. - 2014
We estimate the impact of climate change on agricultural production in a panel of 127 countries from 1961 to 2002. In contrast to the existing literature we account for cross-sectional dependence and technology heterogeneity. We find no significant impact of climate change on agricultural...
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