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The effect of distance and road quality on food collection, marketing margins, and traders' wages: evidence from the former Zaire
Bart Minten,Steven C. Kyle +1 more
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In this article, it is demonstrated that transportation costs explain most of the differences in food prices between producer regions and that road quality is an important factor in the transportation costs, while food prices decrease relatively faster than transportation costs increase and traders' wages are higher on bad roads.About:
This article is published in Journal of Development Economics.The article was published on 1999-12-01. It has received 207 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Food prices & Price dispersion.read more
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Rigged rules and double standards
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The role of social capital in development : an empirical assessment
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False Promise or False Premise? The Experience of Food and Input Market Reform in Eastern and Southern Africa
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Networks, distance, and trust: Telecommunications Development and changing trading practices in Ghana
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Road Development, Economic Growth, and Poverty Reduction in China:
Shenggen Fan,Connie Chan-Kang +1 more
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Peasant Household Behaviour with Missing Markets: Some Paradoxes Explained.
TL;DR: In this paper, a model of peasant household behavior under varying degrees of household-specific food and labor market failures is constructed to show that these structural features can explain several well known patterns of peasant response which have often been attributed to peculiar motives, presumed specific to peasants.
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Quality, quantity, and spatial variation of price
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed and implemented a method for estimating price elasticities of demand using cross-sectional household survey data, which can be matched to variation in demand patterns.
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A Selectivity Model of Household Food Marketing Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa
Abstract: The agricultural household's discrete decision of whether to participate in coarse grain markets is separated here from the continuous decision of how much to sell or buy, conditional on participation. Failure to participate in markets results from high fixed transactions costs. A selectivity model endogenously switches households into alternative market participation states, correcting for bias caused by the exclusion of unobservable variables affecting both discrete and continuous decisions. Improved market information increases the probability of participation by sellers, while access to cereals-processing technology increases quantities transacted by both sellers and buyers, conditional on participation.
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How infrastructure and financial institutions affect agricultural output and investment in India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantify the interrelationships among the investment decisions of government, financial institutions and farmers and their joint effects on agricultural investment and output, using district-level time-series data from India.
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Quality, Quantity, and Spatial Variation of Price
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and implemented a method for estimating price elasticities of demand using cross-sectional household survey data, which can be matched to variation in demand patterns.