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subsidies. In this paper we provide a new explanation for this puzzle, namely the positive impact of subsidies on the education … increasing farmers’ incomes, subsidies increase investment in education. If more educated children are less willing to become … farmers, in the long term subsidies may lead to a reduction of labor supply in the agricultural sector. We provide both …
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This paper investigates the efficiency of organic milk farms in Germany based on data from 1994/95 to 2005/06. Five inputs and one output are analyzed by means of a stochastic frontier production function, allowing for heteroscedasticity and technical effects. The selection of determinants of...
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This paper examines the association between agricultural subsidies and farm efficiency using data from the European …
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with tax and subsidy rates to calculate the marginal social cost of price changes for each item. The results suggest that … even at high levels of inequality aversion there is a strong case for reducing the large subsidies on gasoline and kerosene …
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reduction increases the low-cost exporters' incentives to subsidize export production, which benefits the consumers but hurts … the higher-cost producers. …
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efficiency. The main reasons are the negative link between farm efficiency and subsidies already present in pre-EU accession …
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subsidies. Exports are reduced because of applied export tax and decrease in value added tax rebate. Domestic consumer prices …
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The paper investigates the difference in technical efficiency and in productivity change, and the technology gaps, between French and Hungarian farms in the dairy and cereal, oilseeds and proteinseeds (COP) sectors during the period 2001-2004. The analyses are performed with national FADN data...
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Traditional irrigation water management systems in China are increasingly replaced by user-based, participatory management through water users associations (WUAs) with the purpose to promote more efficient water use and higher farm incomes. Existing research shows that significant differences...
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