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This review critically looks at the theoretical and empirical foundations of positive mathematical programming and its evolution in the past decade or so. We show how the need to model new empirical phenomena has induced the literature to rethink model specifications and to address new questions...
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agriculture and increases of non-agricultural value added per capita. The identification strategy for the effect of fertilizer … percent higher GDP per capita, a 3.3 to 3.9 percentage point lower labor share in agriculture five years later, and …
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is also evidence that productivity growth in the export agriculture sub-sector is negative in all the groups. It is …
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empirical application to Chinese agriculture shows that productivity grows at 2 percent per year on average from 1978 through …
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This article analyzes the effects of household-level activity choices on farm household welfare in a developing country affected by mass violent armed conflict. The study uses household survey data from postwar Nampula and Cabo Delgado provinces in Northern Mozambique capturing many activity...
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This paper investigates the differences in technical efficiency and productivity change, and the technology gaps, between French and Hungarian farms in the dairy and cereal, oilseed and protein crops (COP) sectors during the period 2001-2007. The analyses were performed with national Farm...
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We analyze and compare the impact of different adaptation strategies on crop net revenues in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. We implement a counterfactual analysis, and estimate a multinomial endogenous switching regression model of climate change adaptation and crop net revenues. We combine data...
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This research proposes the hypothesis that societies with long histories of agriculture have less equality in gender …. This evidence reveals a significant negative relationship between years of agriculture history and female labor force … home; (2) transition to cereal agriculture requires time consuming processing, and this would tend to be an activity …
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In this paper we examine more closely the factors associated with production inefficiency in China’s agriculture. The … large percentage of the rural labor force engaged in agriculture tend to be less efficient, and suggests that nurturing and … promoting growth of non-primary agriculture may lead to more efficient use of labor resources in agriculture …
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theoretical curiosity. Wealthy farmers have higher levels of output per hectare because they use more labor per hectare. Insurance …
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