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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Foster, Andrew D. | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Rosenzweig, Mark R. | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2012-06-20T13:14:38Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2012-06-20T13:14:38Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2010 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/59127 | | - |
| dc.description.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. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | Yale Univ., Economic Growth Center New Haven, Conn. | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | Center Discussion Paper, Economic Growth Center 991 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | O13 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | O16 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | O53 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | agriculture | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | India | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | scale | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | profits | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | labor | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | tractors | | en_US |
| dc.title | | Is there surplus labor in rural India? | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 64130949X | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | | Center Discussion Papers, Economic Growth Center (EGC), Yale University
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