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Household Vulnerability to Wild Animal Attacks in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Rural Pakistan
Kurosaki, Takashi; Khan, Hidayat Ullah - Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic … - 2013
Based on a three-year panel dataset of households collected in rural Pakistan, we first quantify the extent to which … number of consumption measures, the difference-in-difference estimate for the impact on consumption was insignificant in the … second year, but highly positive in the third year when estimated without other controls. A part of this consumption increase …
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Impact of Human Resource Development Training on Crop Damages by Wild Animals in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Rural Pakistan
Kurosaki, Takashi; Khan, Hidayat Ullah - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2014
Based on a four-year panel dataset of households collected in rural Pakistan, we examine the impact of an intervention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895340
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821443
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519100
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Production Efficiency and Agricultural Technologies in the Ethiopian Agriculture
Mariam, Yohannes; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
Stochastic frontier production function analysis was performed to examine relative crop and milk production efficiency among peasants in Ada and Selale districts of the Central highlands of Ethiopia. The results indicate that Ada farmers exhibit relatively higher efficiency scores in cereal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837294
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943852
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014536736
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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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Agriculture Value Added and Income Inequality in Pakistan : A Time Series Analysis
Ali, Sharafat - 2014
impacts of agriculture value added, service sector value added, exports of goods and services and foreign direct investment as … percentage of GDP on income inequality measured by Gini coefficient in Pakistan. In this examination, ADF unit root test is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055488
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Can Agricultural Extension and Input Support Be Discontinued? Evidence from a Randomized Phaseout in Uganda
Fishman, Ram; Smith, Stephen C.; Bobic, Vida; Sulaiman, … - 2019
Many development programs that attempt to disseminate improved technologies are limited in duration, either because of external funding constraints or an assumption of impact sustainability; but there is limited evidence on whether and when terminating such programs is efficient. We provide...
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