explore the relationship between rural diversification and poverty. Poverty in rural India declined at a modest rate during … at the beginning of the survey period by 2004. This all-India trajectory masks widely varying trends across states … indirect impact attributable to the positive effect of non-farm employment growth on agricultural wages. The analysis also …

We look at the effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages over the course of … the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting … stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can exacerbate the negative impact of adverse weather on harvest-stage wages …