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This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the … context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market … distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result, a positive relationship between farm productivity and land size may turn …
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paper also investigates the impact of land fragmentation on productivity and labor input per acre, and finds a positive …
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This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the … context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market … distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result, a positive relationship between farm productivity and land size may turn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816072
agricultural productivity and output. However, even though this practice is widely spread and represents a large part of the … shed light on this issue by exploring the impact of agricultural input subsidies on agricultural productivity. Using a … the value of production per hectare as a measure of the effect on agricultural productivity. To this end, data from the …
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agricultural productivity and output. However, even though this practice is widely spread and represents a large part of the … shed light on this issue by exploring the impact of agricultural input subsidies on agricultural productivity. Using a … the value of production per hectare as a measure of the effect on agricultural productivity. To this end, data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786422
Agricultural reform in a rural economy, comprising two separable landholding classes is analyzed in an over-lapping generations framework. "The poor" work the land and have children to provide for family labor and old age support. "Landlords" only use hired labor and maximize profits. It is...
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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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-owned enterprises. The results are corroborated by propensity score matching estimates, implying that the estimated gender productivity … could partially close the gender productivity gap. …
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-owned enterprises. The results are corroborated by propensity score matching estimates, implying that the estimated gender productivity … could partially close the gender productivity gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943906
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141151