The article analyzes how controlling for differences in land types (defined by position on a low-scale toposequence) affects estimates of farm technical efficiency for rice farms in eastern India. Contrasting previous research, we find that farms are considerably more technically efficient when...

Using a long-term household panel data set collected in three rural villages in the Philippines in 1985 and 2004, this article explores how the Green Revolution and development of the labor markets have affected household income and poverty situation. The initial rise in income associated with...

In this article, we provide selective evidence on the impact of natural and manmade disasters on household welfare. First, we consider "ex ante" risk management and "ex post" risk-coping behaviors separately, showing evidence from the Asian economic crisis, earthquakes, and tsunami disasters....