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Contract Structure, Time Preference, and Technology Adoption

Chowdhury, Shyamal K. - 2020

Do constraints to technology adoption vary by behavioral traits? We randomize 150 villages in Bangladesh into being offered standard microcredit, loans with a grace period, the choice between those two contracts, and control. No discernible average effects are detected on the adoption of...

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Air Pollution and Agricultural Productivity in a Developing Country

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2023

I document negative externalities of air pollution in the Indian agricultural sector. Using variation in pollution induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity, with large changes in productivity being common. The...

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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...

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Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers

Naudé, Wim - 2015

African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …

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A General Model of Technical Change with an Application to the OECD Countries

Heshmati, Almas - 2011

In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect the rate of TC. In this paper we model TC via a combination of time trend (purely...

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Gender-Biased Technological Change : Milking Machines and the Exodus of Women from Farming

Ager, Philipp; Goñi, Marc; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

-level data from the Census of Agriculture, we show that the adoption of milking machines triggered a process of structural …

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Gendering Technological Change : Evidence from Agricultural Mechanization

Afridi, Farzana - 2020

Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can …

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The Hedonic Approach to Vineyard Site Selection : Adaptation to Climate Change and Grape Growing in Emerging Markets

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2017

This paper shows how the hedonic approach to vineyard site selection can be used in the adaptation of vineyard land to climate change, natural disasters or other exogenous events. The basic idea is that, if the relation between weather and grape quality is known for each grape type in existing...

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Can Training Enhance Adoption, Knowledge and Perception of Organic Farming Practices? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Indonesia

Grimm, Michael - 2020

In many parts of the world, several decades of intensively applying Green Revolution technologies came at environmental costs, i.e. degraded water and soil quality as well as a loss of biodiversity. This has led to an increased interest in alternative farming systems such as organic farming,...

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Evaluating the Impacts of Minigrid Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ayhan, Sinem H.; Falchetta, Giacomo; Steckel, Jan Christoph - 2022

A large share of the population of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lacks access to modern energy services. To bridge the electricity access gap, distributed power generation systems such as minigrids and stand-alone photovoltaic systems emerge as attractive options in the power supply solution space....

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