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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Farm level data"”.
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Three Essays on Systemic Risk and Rating in Crop Insurance Markets
… These requirements are tested against a unique farm-level data set. The results indicate that the conditions required for the LCR to produce unbiased rates are violated for a large number of actual farmers. Implications include that the current ratemaking produces biased rates that are 75%-180% …
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Total factor productivity of tropical soybean-maize systems: the case of the safrinha crop system in Mato Grosso, Brazil
… in Mato Grosso, Brazil from 2005 to 2012 using farm level data. The second objective of this research is to analyze the input and output factors driving total factor productivity. Total factor productivity takes into consideration all of agricultural inputs (land, labor, fertilizer, seed, …
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US commodity support payments: On allocation of resources and fairness, post 1996
… optimal output mix, input proportions, and farm level changes in scale operations. While "decoupled" payments were instated to comply with WTO guidelines, where tax payer dollars cannot be spent to alter agricultural outputs and /or on farm input decisions, evidence suggests that such …
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Misallocation and Productivity: Micro Evidence from Bangladesh
… output and TFP losses. Using detailed household farm-level data from Bangladesh, I measure the observed gross TFP of Bangladesh's agriculture. I find that capital and intermediate inputs are misallocated in Bangladesh. If resources were hypothetically reallocated across farms, then aggregate TFP …
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Efficiencies of small-scale sugarcane growers in the King Cetshwayo District Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal
… agricultural productive efficiency using Data Envelope Analysis (DEA). The second objective was to determine the chemical-input use efficiency, which was determined using the Slack-Based Measure (SBM) approach of the sampled cane growers. The third objective was to employ the Truncated …
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The Impacts of Climate Change on Rice Production and Small Farmers' Adaptation: A Case of Guyana
… fluctuating yields and climate change, and how farmers are adapting. Of particular importance are the impacts of climate change on small farmers (those cultivating less than 4.45 hectares or 11 acres) and their ability to successfully adapt. Small farmers are especially vulnerable to a changing …
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Three essays in applied finance
… lending. The third paper specifically analyzes farm households that generate income from farm operations, as a representation of small businesses, and focuses on consumption behavior of farm households. The two papers on relationship-based lending focus on the changing structure of …
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Three essays on environmental economics: externalities and policy implications
… study investigates the impacts of sizable wind farms on local crop yields and farm operations. I develop an instrumental variables approach that exploits local wind potential and aviation safety restrictions as sources of exogenous variation in the development of wind energy. I find positive …