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dc.contributor.author | Foster, Andrew D. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Rosenzweig, Mark R. | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-20T13:14:38Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-06-20T13:14:38Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | - |
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 |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aYale University, Economic Growth Center |cNew Haven, CT | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aCenter Discussion Paper |x991 | en |
dc.subject.jel | O13 | en |
dc.subject.jel | O16 | en |
dc.subject.jel | O53 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | agriculture | en |
dc.subject.keyword | India | en |
dc.subject.keyword | scale | en |
dc.subject.keyword | profits | en |
dc.subject.keyword | labor | en |
dc.subject.keyword | tractors | en |
dc.title | Is there surplus labor in rural India? | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 64130949X | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
dc.identifier.repec | RePEc:egc:wpaper:991 | en |
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