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

Jimi, Nusrat - 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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Reconsidering Conventional Explanations of the Inverse Productivity-Size Relationship

Barrett, Christopher B.; Bellemare, Marc F.; Hou, Janet Y. - 2011

The inverse productivity-size relationship is one of the oldest puzzles in development economics. Two conventional … of the inverse productivity-size relationship is explained by market imperfections and none of it seems attributable to …

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Testing the Pareto Efficiency of Household Resource Allocations

Apps, Patricia - 2008

In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...

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Valuing the time of the self-employed

Agness, Daniel; Baseler, Travis; Chassang, Sylvain; … - 2022

People’s value for their own time is a key input in evaluating public policies: evaluations should account for time taken away from work or leisure as a result of policy. Using rich choice data collected from farming households in western Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive...

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Cash transfers, time preference, and productive choices

Mostafavi-Dehzooei, Mohammad H.; Heshmatpour, Masoumeh - 2022

Cash transfers are shown to improve production, increase investment and induce productive practices by farmers. Despite a rich literature showing these desired outcomes, less is known about the pathways that produce these impacts. We use a large-scale cash transfer program in Sub-Saharan Africa...

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The demand for gratitude as a restraint on the use of child labor : A hypothesis

Stark, Oded; Budziński, 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...

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A Spatiotemporal Model of Shifting Cultivation and Forest Cover Dynamics

Brown, Douglas R. - 2007

Shifting cultivation is the primary means of livelihood for subsistence farmers throughout the humid forests of the tropics. They rely on the forest landscape as a source of fertile land to sustain their livelihood. Sustainable use of the resource base requires long periods of fallow and the...

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

Stark, Oded; Budziński, 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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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 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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