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Self-selection into credit markets : evidence from agriculture in Mali

Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - 2014

We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...

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Self‐Selection into Credit Markets : Evidence from Agriculture in Mali

Beaman, Lori - 2015

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The Deadly Cost of Informal Lending : An Economic Model of Agrarian Suicide in Punjab

Johnson, Daniel K. N.; Singh, Lakhwinder; Bhangoo, Kesar; … - 2020

The Indian state of Punjab, which initially benefited greatly from the Green Revolution, has suffered from a dramatic rise in agrarian suicides for several decades. We use a carefully constructed sample of over one thousand farmers in the epicenter, and build a three-stage model of agricultural...

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How Australian Farmers Deal with Risk

Khuu, Amy - 2012

Farm survey data show that the risk aversion of West Australian farmers is comparable to that of other asset holders … other perils but not against the greatest risk – drought. The farm survey indicates that adverse selection does not arise in … the existing market for crop insurance because insurance premiums reflect the risk of crop failure. However, a future …

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Forecasting profitability

Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Udry, Christopher - 2013

We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...

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Competitiveness of Farms in Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship Depending on the Direction and Scale of Production

Sass, Roman - 2017

uniqueness of agriculture in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship consists in a relatively high share of perfectly functioning …

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Other Gainful Activities Directly Related to the Agricultural Holding According to the Polish FADN

Cholewa, Izabela; Smolik, Adam - 2022

Over the years, we can observe that farmers take up other gainful activities directly related to the agricultural holding (OGA), which affects their economic results. The aim of the study is to show the importance and specificity of OGA in the case of Polish farms. OGA are presented on the basis...

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Forecasting Profitability

Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2013

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Studying farm insurance demand under financial constraints

Baráth, Lajos; Bokuševa, Raušan; Fertő, Imre - 2016

We hypothesize a reciprocal causation between crop insurance use and the economic performance of farms in an environment characterized by imperfect financial markets and farms’ budget constraints. To test our hypothesis, we apply a system of simultaneous equations consisting of economic...

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Understanding farmers' valuation of agricultural insurance : evidence from Viet Nam

King, Michael; Singh, Anuj Pratap - 2018

of insurance. Third, we help answer the puzzle why the most risk averse are least likely to take up agricultural …

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