's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …

's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …

smallholder cotton farmers in Benin and includes both conventional cotton farmers who extensively use synthetic pesticides and … organic cotton farmers who are only allowed to use bio-pesticides. Using per-capita health expenditure as proxy for the health … of the farmers, our results show that conventional cotton farmers generally have significantly poorer health than organic …