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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Does Human Capital Raise Farm or Non-farm Earning More? New Insight from Rural Pakistan Panel Survey
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| Autores: |
Satriawan, Elan
Swinton, Scott M.
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| Data: |
2005-05-10
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| Ano: |
2005
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| Palavras-chave: |
Labor and Human Capital
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| Resumo: |
This study explores how human capital affects farm household earnings using two tools to refine measurement of human capital effects. First, it employs a two-sector model to allow the allocation of family labor between farm and non-farm activities. Second, it accounts for village fixed effects to evaluate whether results from panel data differ meaningfully from a cross-sectional data analysis with local binary variables. The results show that education has a negligible effect on farm earnings; instead, experience appears to be the principal channel by which human capital affects agricultural performance in a traditional rural setting. Our results also suggest that prior models that fail to separate non-farm activities spuriously exaggerated the effect of education to the farm sector. In addition, typical cross-sectional analyses that ignore fixed effects may cause the effects of education on rural household earnings to be significantly overstated. The fact that panel data regressions accounting for village-level fixed effects found only one instance of education raising earnings the effect of literacy on non-farm income suggests that considerable heterogeneity may have been ignored in cross-sectional data analyses, especially ones that omitted village binary variables.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
16115
http://purl.umn.edu/19207
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
American Agricultural Economics Association>2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI
Selected Paper 136593
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| Formato: |
25
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