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Factor Markets, Relative Prices, and Input Use in Eastern and Southern Africa
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| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | Factor Markets, Relative Prices, and Input Use in Eastern and Southern Africa. |
| 개인저자 | Kopper, Sarah Alexandra. |
| 단체저자명 | Michigan State University. Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics - Doctor of Philosophy. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: Michigan State University., 2018. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018. |
| 형태사항 | 217 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertation Abstracts International 79-12A(E). Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9780438211643 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2018. |
| 일반주기 |
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12(E), Section: A.
Adviser: Andrew Dillon. |
| 요약 | Despite decades of targeted research and policy, agricultural input use in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains low. Moreover, while it is increasingly understood that incomplete markets impose additional constraints on rural households, the role of |
| 요약 | The first chapter uses three waves of the World Bank's Ethiopia Socioeconomic Survey to formally test whether imperfections in multiple markets affect fertilizer demand among smallholder famers in Ethiopia. The share of working-aged males in the |
| 요약 | The second chapter extends this price elasticity analysis and draws on a 13-year panel dataset collected by Egerton University and Michigan State University to examine how Kenyan smallholders adjust demand for cultivated area and fertilizer in r |
| 요약 | The third chapter uses two waves of a plot-level panel dataset of farmers' self-identified most and least fertile maize plots in Central Malawi to characterize the range in expected profitability of fertilizer and weeding labor use that is found |
| 요약 | Taken together, these essays underscore the role of factor market frictions and other imperfections in limiting input use among smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa. They highlight the need to consider the additional constraints farmers face as a |
| 일반주제명 | Agricultural economics. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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