Since 1950, agricultural productivity has been increasing even as labourers leave agriculture. However, while average productivity of the sector has been converging, within-sector inequality has been increasing. Agricultural income inequality is still less than overall income inequality, but it...

In diesem Thünen Report wird die Verteilung des Eigentums von Landwirtschaftsfläche in Deutschland untersucht und beschrieben. Die Datengrundlage sind Flurstücks- und Eigentümerdaten von 2023 aus dem Liegenschaftskataster (ALKIS) einer breit gestreuten Zufallsstichprobe von 387 Gemeinden,...

Although the policy impacts on farms accumulate year by year, most farm decision models focus on short-term decisions, evaluating policies based on snapshots. Structural changes are gradually built; therefore, farm decision models should consider the sequences within the period under study....

Using updated data, we analyze the long-run effects of two British colonial institutions established in India. Iyer (2010) showed that areas under direct colonial rule had fewer schools, health centers, and roads than areas under indirect colonial rule. Two decades later, we find that these...

In diesem Thünen Report wird die Verteilung des Eigentums von Landwirtschaftsfläche in Deutschland untersucht und beschrieben. Die Datengrundlage sind Flurstücks- und Eigentümerdaten von 2023 aus dem Liegenschaftskataster (ALKIS) einer breit gestreuten Zufallsstichprobe von 387 Gemeinden,...

This is a plan for the final component of the "Experiments for Development of Climate Smart Agriculture" (SMARTEX), which is a collaborative research and capacity-building program with School of Economics and Business (SEB) at NMBU, Ås, Norway and Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural...