In this paper, we examine the impact of pay-for-performance incentives on learning-by-doing. We exploit personnel data on fruit pickers paid under two distinct compensation contracts: a standard piece rate plan and a piece rate plan with an extra one-time bonus tied to output. Under the bonus...

We revisit the long-standing empirical evidence of an inverse relationship between farm size and productivity using rich microdata from Uganda. We show that farm size is negatively related to yields (output per hectare), as commonly found in the literature, but positively related to farm...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the degree of dicotyledonous weed species of maize culture, the effectiveness of weed control products and the evaluation of maize yield. Experimental factors A-treatment variants: a1-pre-emergence herbicide with Tender 1.5 l/ha + Merlin Flex 0.4 l/ha...

The yield dates recorded in the period 2016-2018 indicate that soybean is less demanding at the soil cultivation system, so that in the three years of experimentation, the average yield achieved in the classical soil cultivation system had a close value of that obtained in the minimum system...

This paper examines the dynamic effects of monsoon rainfall shocks on yield, wages, and prices in the Indian agricultural sector. We distinguish between positive and negative rainfall shocks and explicitly consider their spatial dimension (local/regional). We find that particularly negative...