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Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited

Gehrke, Esther; Grimm, Michael - 2014

as an instrument for investment in cattle. We find average returns in the order of -2% at the mean, but they vary across …

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Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited

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

as an instrument for investment in cattle. We find average returns in the order of -2% at the mean, but they vary across …

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

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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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 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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Agricultural Extension and Technology Adoption for Food Security: Evidence from Uganda

Pan, Yao; Smith, Stephen C.; Sulaiman, Munshi - 2015

This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers...

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

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020

Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for 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...

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The Importance of Specification Choices When Analyzing Sectoral Productivity Gaps

Merfeld, Joshua D.; Brummund, Peter - 2021

A consistent finding in the development literature is that average non-farm labor productivity is higher than average farm labor productivity. These differences in average productivity are sometimes used to promote policies which advance the non-farm sector. In this paper, we analyze the...

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Should Farmers Farm More? Comparing Marginal Products within Malawian Households

Brummund, Peter; Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2021

According to standard economic theory, households should equate the marginal revenue product of an input across activities within the household. However, this prediction may not hold in the presence of risk. Using data on farm plots and non-farm enterprises in Malawi, we examine the impact of...

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Rural households in a changing climate

Báez Ramírez, Javier Eduardo; Kronick, Dorothy; … - 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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