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The Effects of Access to Credit on Productivity: Separating Technological Changes from Changes in Technical Efficiency

Jimi, Nusrat Abedin; Nikolov, Plamen; Malek, Mohammad Abdul - 2019

Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market … imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises … on the overall productivity of rice farmers and disentangled the total effect into technological change (frontier shift …

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Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited

Gehrke, Esther; Grimm, Michael - 2014

of scale as well a high upfront expenses of acquiring high productivity animals might trap poorer households in low-productivity …

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Posh Spice or Scary Spice? Resource Booms, Wealth, and Human Capital across Ages

Boone, Christopher; Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E. - 2024

We examine the impact of a six-fold increase in the global vanilla price on smallholder vanilla-farming households in Madagascar. The price increase leads to sizable gains in household assets and significant improvements in adult psychological well-being, cognitive performance, and optimism...

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

Grimm, Michael; Luck, Nathalie - 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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Gender Bias in Agricultural Child Labor: Evidence from Survey Design Experiments

Galdo, Jose C.; Dammert, Ana C.; Abebaw, Degnet - 2020

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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Recall Bias Revisited: Measure Farm Labor Using Mixed-Mode Surveys and Multiple Imputation

Dang, Hai-Anh; Carletto, Calogero - 2022

Smallholder farming dominates agriculture in poorer countries. Yet, traditional recall-based surveys on smallholder farming in these countries face challenges with seasonal variations, high survey costs, poor record-keeping, and technical capacity constraints resulting in significant recall...

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The Demand for Gratitude as a Restraint on the Use of Child Labor: A Hypothesis

Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2022

We study a parent's demand for gratitude from his child. We view this demand as an intervening variable between the parent's earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive care and support from his child late in life, while the...

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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level

Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...

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Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited

Gehrke, Esther; Grimm, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

of scale as well a high upfront expenses of acquiring high productivity animals might trap poorer households in low-productivity …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959581