health production function is used to estimate the impact of malaria incidence on agricultural efficiency. Data come from the …The importance of health in promoting economic development has been forcefully stated by the World Health Organization …’s Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. In this paper, we look at the impact of own household health expenses on malaria …

This paper studies the impact of agglomeration and selection on firms' total factor productivity (TFP) distributions … mean-shift and greater dispersion whenever firms benefit from agglomeration economies. However, selection due to …

, and self-selection into primary crop. We find that: (i). early-season and late-season temperatures and rainfall are most … significant for selection into corn, while mid-season weather impacts soybean selection; (ii). sensitivity to nonlinear weather …

cost implied by selection based on different feed efficiency estimates were evaluated and compared-“costs of …In this paper the issue of nonlinearity and heterogeneity in the derivation of feed efficiency estimates for beef … efficiency estimates to assumptions pertaining to heterogeneity between animals and within cohorts. Further, differences in feed …

holdings across regions or transferring risk by purchasing insurance. …

citrus as the first step for statistical modeling of the risks associated with citrus cancers aimed at pricing insurance …

certain genetically engineered plants. This article addresses the situation by constructing an insurance pricing model to … parameters. This physical distribution is then used to calculate the premium for fair valued insurance that would be necessary to …

of Niger. A propensity score matching method is used to address self-selection bias into the program. First, we estimate … estimate a stochastic production technology frontier to compare technical efficiency of farmers in the extension program. We … test for returns to scale, examine factors affecting technical efficiency of participants, and compare technical efficiency …