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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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Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited

Gehrke, Esther - 2014

This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a state in the south of India, we examine average and...

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A Comparison of Panel Data Models in Estimating Technical Efficiency

Rashidghalam, Masoomeh - 2016

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, it compares the performance of various panel data models in estimating technical efficiency in production. Second, it applies various stochastic frontier panel data models to estimate the technical efficiency of Iran's cotton production and to...

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Impact of Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes on Seasonal Labor Markets : Optimum Compensation and Workers' Welfare

Basu, Arnab K. - 2011

compensation to public work employees consistent with the objectives of (i) productive efficiency in agriculture and (ii) welfare …

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Producer Protection Legislation and Termination Damages in the Presence of Contracting Frictions

Wu, Steven Y. - 2009

This study models producer protection legislation that would grant growers the right to claim damages (PPLD) if their contracts are prematurely terminated. In the absence of contracting frictions that prevent contractors from redesigning contracts to accommodate exogenous policy changes, PPLD...

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After the Farm Crisis : Religiosity in the Rural United States

Orman, Wafa Hakim - 2013

agriculture. Chen (2010) describes increased religiosity in Indonesia following the 1998 financial crisis, and this paper …

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Gender Bias in Agricultural Child Labor : Evidence from Survey Design Experiments

Galdo, Jose; Dammert, Ana C.; Abebaw, Degnet - 2021

Agricultural labor accounts for the largest share of child labor worldwide. Yet, measurement of farm labor statistics is challenging due to its inherent seasonality, variable and irregular work schedules, and the varying saliences of individuals' work activities. The problem is further...

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Rainfall Risk and Fertility : Evidence from Farm Settlements During the American Demographic Transition

Grimm, Michael - 2016

Fertility is a main driver and outcome of long-term growth. Yet, fertility may not only interact with the level of income but also with its volatility. In pre-modern economies where formal social security was largely absent, fertility decisions may also have been made in view of insuring income...

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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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Attention Discrimination : Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition

Bartos, Vojtech - 2014

We link two important ideas: attention is scarce and lack of information about an individual drives discrimination in selection decisions. Our model of allocation of costly attention implies that applicants from negatively stereotyped groups face "attention discrimination": less attention in...

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