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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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Incentives to labour migration and agricultural productivity : the Bayesian perspective
Djuikom, Marie Albertine - 2018
Understanding how internal labour migration affects the agricultural sector is important for all developing countries whose markets do not work well or are non-existent. In fact, even if the movement out of the agricultural sector can be viewed as a process to reach development for many African...
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Farm size and income distribution of Latin American agriculture : new perspectives on an old issue
Gáfaro, Margarita; Ibáñez, Ana María; … - 2023
Latin American and Caribbean countries have historically been known for their rates of land inequality, highest in the world. However, these countries also exhibit a high degree of heterogeneity in their patterns of land concentration and average farm sizes. These cross-country differences play...
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Long-Range Forecasts As Climate Adaptation : Experimental Evidence From Developing-Country Agriculture
Burlig, Fiona; Jina, Amir; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Climate change increases weather variability, exacerbating agricultural risk in poor countries. Risk-averse farmers are unable to tailor their planting decisions to the coming season, and underinvest in profitable inputs. Accurate, long-range forecasts enable farmers to optimize for the season...
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Can agricultural extension and input support be discontinued? : evidence from a randomized phaseout in Uganda
Fishman, Ram; Smith, Stephen C.; Bobić, Vida; … - 2019
A society that believes wealth to be determined by random "luck", rather than by merit, demands more redistribution. We present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009, which hit a large area of Central Italy through a series of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012035684
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Commercialization in agriculture in rural Viet Nam, 2006 - 14
McKay, Andrew D.; Cazzuffi, Chiara; Perge, Emilie - 2015
livelihood. Moreover, this agriculture has become increasingly commercialized over time. This paper uses the five wave VARHS …
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Brazil's agricultural total factor productivity growth by farm size
Helfand, Steven M.; Magalhães, Marcelo; Rada, Nicholas E. - 2015
country's dual agricultural policy focus towards large commercial agribusiness enterprises, led by the Ministry of Agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485802
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Can commercial farming promote rural dynamism in sub-Saharan Africa? : evidence from Mozambique
Glover, Steven M.; Jones, Sam - 2016
The impact of large commercial farms on neighbouring smallholders in low-income sub-Saharan Africa remains controversial. Bringing evidence to a largely anecdotal debate, we deploy a dataset covering all commercial farms in Mozambique, linking them to a nationally representative survey of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557662
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Entrepreneurship and the reallocation of African farmers
Naudé, Wim - 2015
African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …
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Mobile money, market transactions, and household income in rural Kenya
Kikulwe, Enoch M.; Fischer, Elisabeth; Qaim, Matin - 2013
Mobile phone based money services have spread rapidly in many developing countries. We analyze micro level impacts using panel data from smallholder farmers in Kenya. Mobile money use has a large positive net impact on household income. One important pathway is through remittances, which...
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