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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP9340 |
DP9340 Profitability of fertilizer: Experimental evidence from female rice farmers in Mali | |
Christopher Udry; Dean Karlan; Lori Beaman | |
发表日期 | 2013-02-10 |
出版年 | 2013 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | In an experiment providing fertilizer grants to women rice farmers in Mali, we found that women who received fertilizer increased both the quantity of fertilizer they used on their plots and complementary inputs such as herbicides and hired labor. This highlights that farmers respond to an increase in availability of one input by re-optimizing other inputs, making it challenging to isolate the returns to any one input. We also found that while the increase in inputs led to a significantly higher level of output, we find no evidence that profits increased. Our results suggest that fertilizer's impact on profits is small compared to other sources of variation. This may make it difficult for farmers to observe the impact of fertilizer on their plots, and accordingly this affects their ability to learn about the returns to fertilizer and could affect their decision to adopt even in the absence of credit constraints. |
主题 | Development Economics |
关键词 | Agricultural economics Returns to fertilizer |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp9340 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/538176 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Christopher Udry,Dean Karlan,Lori Beaman. DP9340 Profitability of fertilizer: Experimental evidence from female rice farmers in Mali. 2013. |
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