This paper estimates the returns to health and nutrition in both farm and off-farm activities of agricultural households in rural Bangladesh. The findings of this paper indicate that the health of adults in rural Bangladesh influences the households’ choice of employment activities as well as their incomes given their participation decisions. Adult height has a significant positive effect on of...

This study examines the effect of quantity sold (sales volume) on profitability market participating smallholder farmers in northern Ghana. Market participation has been shown to be important for increasing incomes and improving production efficiency farm households but still remains low SSA. While agribusiness development experts generally advocate more intensive participation, it is not clear...

If farmers are risk averse, greater farm income variability should increase off-farm labor supply. This effect is confirmed for a sample of Kansas farmers. Off-farm employment of farmers and their spouses is also found to be significantly influenced by farm experience, off-farm work experience, farm size, leverage, efficiency, and farm-specific education. In addition, farm operators and spouses...

The public acceptance of Offshore Wind Farms (OWFs) is an important issue that expected to depend highly on their site location. Public involvement in decision-making processes recommended as it may contribute the mitigation opposing, delaying and even blocking OWF projects, well increasing future confidence support. aim this study identify most suitable sites for OWFs deployment Greece based c...

OBJECTIVES To identify preventable risk factors related to agricultural injuries occurring to children on family farms. SETTING A geographically defined central region of Wisconsin, USA with nearly 1800 family dairy farms. METHODS A two year, population based incidence study of occupational injuries among farm residents was conducted. For cases, trained staff abstracted information on the n...

This paper tests whether structural change in US agriculture is an important channel to TFP growth and evaluates the relative impact of (i) public research and education policies, (ii) private R&D and market forces, and (iii) government farm programs on structural change. We specify a structural econometric model, fit it to US state aggregate data, 1953–1982, and use the associated reduced-form...