The dynamic consequences of machine threshing in the Semi-Arid Tropics (SAT) of Peninsular India are evaluated. Limited diffusion of threshers in the SAT of the country. Cost savings and profitability of mechanical threshing. The marked decrease in labour hiring for threshing between 1975/76 and...

We conduct an interactive online experiment framed as an employment contract between employer and worker. Subjects from the US, India, and Africa are matched in pairs within and, in some cases, across countries. Employers make a one-period offer to a worker who can either decline or choose a...