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Can training enhance adoption, knowledge and perception of organic farming practices? : evidence from a randomized experiment in Indonesia
Grimm, Michael; Luck, Nathalie - 2020
In many parts of the world, several decades of intensively applying Green Revolution technologies came at environmental costs, i.e. degraded water and soil quality as well as a loss of biodiversity. This has led to an increased interest in alternative farming systems such as organic farming,...
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Spouses' access to financial services : estimating technological and managerial gaps in production
Malabayabas, Maria Luz L.; Mishra, Ashok K.; Mayorga, … - 2023
The study investigates the effect of the spouse's access to financial services (credit or savings) through membership in a self-help group on adopting technology, technical efficiency, and managerial gaps. To estimate the empirical model, we use farm-level data from rice farming households in...
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Contract structure, time preference, and technology adoption
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Smits, Joeri; Sun, Qigang - 2020
Do constraints to technology adoption vary by behavioral traits? We randomize 150 villages in Bangladesh into being offered standard microcredit, loans with a grace period, the choice between those two contracts, and control. No discernible average effects are detected on the adoption of...
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New digital technologies and heterogeneous employment and wage dynamics in the United States : evidence from individual-level data
Fossen, Frank M.; Sorgner, Alina - 2019
We investigate heterogeneous effects of new digital technologies on the individual-level employment- and wage dynamics … effects of new digital technologies on employment stability and wage growth are already observable at the individual level … well as a decrease in wage growth. However, advances in AI are likely to improve an individual's job stability and wage …
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Inequality and specialization : the growth of low-skill service jobs in the United States
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009
wage growth. This paper analyzes the sources of the changing shape of the lower-tail of the U.S. wage and employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884083
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Rise of the machines : the effects of labor-saving innovations on jobs and wages
Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - 2015
in middle wage jobs relative to both high and low wage jobs. Our theory explains recent and historical instances of job …
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How do workers adjust when firms adopt new technologies?
Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Janser, Markus; Lehmer, … - 2021
stability, higher wage growth, and increased cumulative earnings in response to digital technology adoption. These beneficial …
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The impact of ICT and robots on labour market outcomes of demographic groups in Europe
Albinowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr - 2022
and prime-aged women in employment and the wage bills of particular sectors, but reduced the shares of older women and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470097
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Can agricultural extension and input support be discontinued? : evidence from a randomized phaseout in Uganda
Fishman, Ram; Smith, Stephen C.; Bobić, Vida; … - 2019
A society that believes wealth to be determined by random "luck", rather than by merit, demands more redistribution. We present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009, which hit a large area of Central Italy through a series of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012035684
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How sustainable are benefits from extension for smallholder farmers? : evidence from a randomized phase-out of the BRAC program in Uganda
Fishman, Ram; Smith, Stephen C.; Bobić, Vida; … - 2017
Many development programs are based on short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or because it is assumed that impacts persist post program termination ("sustainability"). Using a novel randomized phase-out research method, we provide experimental tests of the...
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