@techreport{Foster2010there,
abstract = {We show empirically using panel data at the plot and farm level and based on a model incorporating supervision costs, risk, credit-market imperfections and scale-economies associated with mechanization that small-scale farming is inefficient in India. Larger farms are more profitable per acre, more mechanized, less constrained in input use after bad shocks, and employ less per-acre labor than small farms. Based on our structural estimates of the effects of farm size on labor use and the distribution of Indian landholdings, we estimate that over 20% of the Indian agricultural labor force is surplus if minimum farm scale is 20 acres.},
address = {New Haven, Conn.},
author = {Andrew D. Foster and Mark R. Rosenzweig},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {O13; O16; O53; 330; agriculture; India; scale; profits; labor; tractors},
language = {eng},
number = {991},
publisher = {Yale Univ., Economic Growth Center},
title = {Is there surplus labor in rural India?},
type = {Center Discussion Paper, Economic Growth Center},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/59127},
year = {2010}
}
