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Title:Macroeconomic Shocks, Human Capital and Productive Efficiency: Evidence from West African Rice Farmers
Authors:Barrett, Christopher B.ISNI
Sherlund, Shane M.
Adesina, Akinwumi A.
Year:2006
Periodical:Journal of African Economies
Volume:15
Issue:3
Period:September
Pages:343-372
Language:English
Geographic term:Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire
Subjects:devaluation
small farms
efficiency
rice
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Development and Technology
Economics and Trade
Labor and Employment
External link:https://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/3/343.full.pdf
Abstract:Little empirical work has quantified the transitory effects of macroeconomic shocks on farm-level production behaviour. The authors develop a simple analytical model to explain how macroeconomic shocks might temporarily divert managerial attention, thereby affecting farm-level productivity, but perhaps to different degrees and for different durations across production units. They test hypotheses from that model using 1993-1995 panel data bracketing the massive currency devaluation in Côte d'Ivoire in January 1994. They find a transitory increase in mean plot-level technical inefficiency among Ivorian rice producers and considerable variation in the magnitude and persistence of this effect, attributable largely to ex ante complexity of operations, and the educational attainment and off-farm employment status of the plot manager. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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