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Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...

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Profitability of Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali

Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Beaman, Lori A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

In an experiment providing fertilizer grants to women rice farmers in Mali, we found that women who received fertilizer … increased both the quantity of fertilizer they used on their plots and complementary inputs such as herbicides and hired labor … level of output, we find no evidence that profits increased. Our results suggest that fertilizer's impact on profits is …

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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Karlan, Dean; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Osei, Robert Darko; … - Economics Department, Yale University - 2012

The investment decisions of small-scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in...

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Rainfall Forecasts, Weather and Wages over the Agricultural Production Cycle

Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2014

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...

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Profitability of Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali

Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2013

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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2012

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Forecasting Profitability

Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, christopher - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2013

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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Osei, Robert Darko; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

The investment decisions of small‐scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969291

Shadow vs. market prices in explaining land allocation: Subsistence maize cultivation in rural Mexico

Arslan, Aslıhan - In: Food Policy 36 (2011) 5, pp. 606-614

Prices may fail to explain farmers’ land allocation if the relevant decision prices are “shadow prices” that deviate from market prices. This may be the case for farmers who attach significant non-market values to their crops. I theoretically explain why land allocation may not respond to...

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Livestock and Land Share Contracts in a Hindu Society

Aryal, Jeetendra P.; Holden, Stein T. - School of Economics and Business, Norges miljø- og … - 2011

This paper examines factors related to the existence of a livestock rental market in western Nepal and assesses whether this is associated with caste differentiation and land rental market participation. This study brings new empirical evidence of livestock rental market against the established...

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