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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010385235
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507634
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Self‐Selection into Credit Markets : Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
Beaman, Lori - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020442
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090351
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107124
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009782148
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946680
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013295669
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Forecasting profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Chris - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369064
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Forecasting Profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078029