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Revisiting the role of education for agricultural productivity
Reimers, Malte; Klasen, Stephan - 2011
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 or even surprisingly negative effect of schooling. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380403
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Revisiting the role of education for agricultural productivity
Reimers, Malte; Klasen, Stephan - 2011
While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross-country regressions analysing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect insignificant or even surprising negative effects of schooling. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349170
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A Frontier Function Approach to Decompose Agricultural Productivity Growth : The Case of Greece
Rezitis, Anthony N.; Tsiboukas, Kostas; Tsoukalas, Stauros - 2015
The objective of this paper is to investigate the relative contribution of input use, technological change and technical efficiency to the production growth of the Greek agricultural sector, using a stochastic production frontier method (Battese and Coelli, 1999) to a panel of 608 farms over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216981
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Chapter 28 The macroeconomics of agriculture
Ardeni, Pier Giorgio; Freebairn, John - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 2, part A, …, (pp. 1455-1485). 2002
sector and justifies why we can conceive of a macroeconomics of agriculture . The primary sector is characterized by product … — from agriculture to the rest of the economy — forward linkages — from the macroeconomy and the international economy to … agriculture — and second-round feed-back interdependent linkages. Models and studies attempting to quantify the linkages are then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024103
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Does the Swiss car market reward fuel efficient cars? : evidence from hedonic pricing regressions, matching and a regression discontinuity design
Alberini, Anna; Bareit, Markus Walter; Filippini, Massimo - 2014
To correct market failures due to the presence of negative externalities associated with energy consumption, governments have adopted a variety of policies, including taxes, subsidies, regulations and standards, and information-based policies. For example, labels that clearly convey energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359346
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Does the Swiss car market reward fuel efficient cars? : evidence from hedonic pricing regressions, a regression discontinuity design, and matching
Alberini, Anna; Bareit, Markus Walter; Filippini, Massimo - 2014
To correct market failures due to the presence of negative externalities associated with energy consumption, governments have adopted a variety of policies, including taxes, subsidies, regulations and standards, and information-based policies. For example, labels that clearly convey energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251626
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Does the Swiss Car Market Reward Fuel Efficient Cars? Evidence from Hedonic Pricing Regressions, Matching and a Regression Discontinuity Design
Alberini, Anna - 2014
To correct market failures due to the presence of negative externalities associated with energy consumption, governments have adopted a variety of policies, including taxes, subsidies, regulations and standards, and information-based policies. For example, labels that clearly convey energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060730
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Does the Swiss Car Market Reward Fuel Efficient Cars? Evidence from Hedonic Pricing Regressions, a Regression Discontinuity Design, and Matching
Alberini, Anna; Bareit, Markus; Filippini, Massimo - 2014
To correct market failures due to the presence of negative externalities associated with energy consumption, governments have adopted a variety of policies, including taxes, subsidies, regulations and standards, and information-based policies. For example, labels that clearly convey energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014148024
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Revisiting the role of education for agricultural productivity
Reimers, Malte; Klasen, Stephan - 2011
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 or even surprisingly negative effect of schooling. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286638
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Modeling European Health Regional Systems through a Directional Distance Function Metafrontier Framework. Are There Any Differences?
Bonasia, Mariangela - 2017
The current and future performance of regional health systems is responsible for increasing health costs and it depends on a wide range of contextual factors. Studies on regional health productive performance and on different health systems are scarce. This paper focuses on the efficiency of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945361