Synthetic pesticides can be detrimental to the health of humans, particularly when handled inappropriately, which is … pesticide application can mitigate the detrimental health effects of pesticides. Our empirical analysis is based on data from … organic cotton farmers who are only allowed to use bio-pesticides. Using per-capita health expenditure as proxy for the health …

, profit, and household living standards. Results from fixed effects models show that the adoption of Bt cotton is associated … with a net yield gain of 24% and a profit increase of 50%. These benefits per acre were stable over time; there are even …