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Smallholders, Market Failures, and Agricultural Production : Evidence from India

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020

smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders … reallocate labor across activities less in response to intra-seasonal crop price changes than do non-smallholders. A … counterfactual exercise indicates smallholders could increase revenue by almost nine percent if they were to reallocate labor …

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Rural Households in a Changing Climate

Baez, Javier E. - 2012

This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...

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Can Agricultural Extension and Input Support Be Discontinued? Evidence from a Randomized Phaseout in Uganda

Fishman, Ram - 2019

Many development programs are short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or an assumption of impact sustainability. Using a novel randomized phaseout research method, we provide experimental tests of phaseout effects of an extension program designed for women...

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Improving Access to Savings Through Mobile Money : Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers

Batista, Catia - 2019

Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited access to formal savings. This is the first study to use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of using mobile money as a tool to promote agricultural investment....

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Small-Scale Farming and Food Security : The Enabling Role of Cash Transfers in South Africa's Former Homelands

von Fintel, Dieter - 2016

Cash transfers successfully alleviate poverty in many developing countries. South Africa is a case in point, implementing one of the largest unconditional cash transfer programmes internationally, and with substantial benefits to household well-being along multiple dimensions. Yet, grants...

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How Sustainable are Benefits from Extension for Smallholder Farmers? Evidence from a Randomized Phase-Out of the BRAC Program in Uganda

Fishman, Ram - 2017

farming practices among women smallholders in Uganda. We find that while supply of improved seeds through local, BRAC trained …

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Strengthening Producer Organizations to Increase Market Access of Smallholder Farmers in Uganda

Vargas Hill, Ruth - 2020

procuring inputs and marketing produce, where smallholders face disproportionately high transaction costs. Producer …

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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management

Guadalupe, Maria - 2012

team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments – which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through …

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Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World

Batista, Catia - 2013

Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...

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Household Asset Holding Diversification in Australia

Mariotti, Francesco - 2014

We explore asset holding diversification by Australian households, in particular, the household asset diversification … lower extent of, asset holding diversification …

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