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| Mapila, Mariam A.T.J.; Njuki, Jemimah M.; Delve, Robert J.; Zingore, Shamie; Matibini, Josephine. |
| Farm surveys in Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique were carried out to assess the determinants of fertiliser use given continued low yields, low organic matter and general poor soil health in Southern African soils. Regression modelling showed that fertiliser use was influenced by household and farm characteristics. In addition, it was also influenced by social and human capital and farmers’ perceptions of the effect of fertilisers on soil fertility. Farmers who perceived fertilisers as bad for their soil were less likely to adopt their use. This is a key result, as the emerging discussions on a green revolution for Africa, as well as the continued food crisis discussion, are prompting increased fertiliser use as an immediate intervention for increasing... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: African green revolution; Farmer perceptions; Fertiliser subsidies; Fertiliser use; Human capital; Social capital; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123354 |
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| Schultz, T. Paul. |
| A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a populations child nutrition, adult health, and schooling, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the productive returns from these three forms of human capital investment are nonetheless qualified by a number of limitations in our data and analytical methods. This paper reviews the problems that occupy researchers in this field and summarizes accumulating evidence of empirical regularities. Social experiments must be designed to assess how randomized policy interventions motivate families and individuals to invest in human capital, and then measure the changed wage... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Health; Productivity; Human capital; Schooling; Returns; Labor and Human Capital; J24; I12; I21. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28475 |
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| Rizov, Marian. |
| This paper examines the production mode choices of rural households with an emphasis on the role of human capital in the agricultural transformation process. Farm restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe has resulted in a broad range of farm types, such as co-operatives, partnerships, individual farms and combinations of those. The fact that resources are allocated into different production organization modes is attributed to the utility maximization strategy of heterogeneous agents deriving income from uncertain sources in the face of absent or imperfect factor markets. Empirical results from a multinomial logit model estimated with data from two-year nation-wide survey of Romanian farm households support the hypothesis that the outcome of the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Human capital; Production organization; Agricultural transition; Romania; Production Economics. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24925 |
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| Huffman, Wallace E.. |
| Education is widely recognized as the most important form of human capital, and health as the second most important form. The primary focus is on schooling where private and social real rates of return remain high in low and middle income countries for elementary and secondary schooling. The paper reviews broad effects of education in agriculture, and examines some of the prospects and potential for the future. Conclusions include: (i) schooling cannot be viewed as unconditionally productive in agriculture. It s impact is conditioned by the price and technology environment and options for off-farm work and migration. (ii) With rapid advances and fall prices of communication and information technologies, farm people of the future will need strong basic... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Schooling; Education; Human capital; Agriculture; Information technologies; Training; Global agriculture; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18269 |
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| Deepak, Sri Devi; Seale, James L., Jr.; Moss, Charles B.. |
| The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyze determinants of income-level convergence. Specifically, the effect of human capital on per capita income is estimated for 22 countries of the organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Additionally, the effects of openness in international trade and investment and government expenditures on per capita income are estimated and evaluated. Human capital is modeled as a latent variable, and results indicate that it is a significant factor in explaining the variation of per capita income levels among the OECD countries. Further, the entire time path of human capital is utilized to explain deviations in per capita income. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Convergence; Human capital; Inequality; Latent variable; OECD. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43299 |
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| Robison, Lindon J.; Schmid, A. Allan; Siles, Marcelo E.. |
| Social capital in the past two decades has emerged as a dominant paradigm in the various social science disciplines. However, its adoption by the different social science disciplines has led to multiple and often conflicting definitions of social capital. Some differences in the definition of social capital can be explained because scientists have included in the definition expressions of its possible uses, where it resides, and how its service capacity can be changed. This paper defends the social capital metaphor by pointing out that social capital has many important capital-like properties including service potential, durability, flexibility, substitutability, opportunities for decay (maintenance), reliability, ability to create other capital forms,... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Social capital; Cultural capital; Human capital; Physical/financial capital; Service potential; Durability; Flexibility; Substitutability; Decay (maintenance); Reliability; Investment (disinvestment); Institutional and Behavioral Economics. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11649 |
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| Pautrel, Xavier. |
| This note shows that the assumptions about the abatement technology modify the impact of the environmental taxation (both the size and the “direction”) on the long-run growth driven by human capital accumulation à la Lucas (1988), when the source of pollution is private consumption and lifetime is finite. When the human capital’s share in the abatement services production is higher (respectively lower) than in the final output production, a higher environmental tax reduces (resp. increases) the allocation of human capital in production sectors (abatement service and final output) and boostes (resp. decreases) the BGP rate of growth. When abatement services are produced with the final output, the environmental taxation does not influence growth. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Growth; Environment; Overlapping Generations; Human capital; Finite Lifetime; Abatement; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q5. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91003 |
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| Bojnec, Stefan; Dries, Liesbeth; Swinnen, Johan F.M.. |
| This paper analyses of determinants of agricultural labor flows and the role of human capital in this process on the basis of the Slovenian Labor Force Surveys for the years 1993 to 1999. The household heads living in larger households, having a larger farm size, and working full-time (more hours per week) in permanent jobs are more likely to stay in agricultural employment. The empirical evidence clearly suggests that human capital plays a crucial role for labor mobility and labor adjustment. Young, female and educated individuals are more likely to enter into employment in non-agricultural, particularly service activities. There are remarkable circular flows of elderly and less educated persons between being employed in agriculture, unemployment and... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Slovenia; Human capital; Labor adjustment; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25803 |
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| Nicolosi, Agata; Cambareri, Domenico; Strazzulla, Marco. |
| This research aims at pointing out those constrains and incentives conditioning family farm choices about investments, technical and managerial knowledge and expertness. The planned target has to be achieved through the attainment of three stages. Family farm involves a lot of people by different kind of employee relations, based mostly on a temporary work, that are often within the limits of the work rules. The organization solutions adopted by family farm produce several effects: among which investments and human capital allotment stand out. This research analyses family farm characteristics in a local rural system of the Calabria Region, as the result of the various European Community and domestic interventions and the specific physical, social and... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Human capital; Family farm; Agricultural labour; Agribusiness; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57408 |
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