Economics and Finance Faculty Publications and Presentations
Endogenous Farmer Schooling and the Application of High-Yielding Variety Technology in a Less-Developed Country
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-2002
Abstract
The paper uses data from the World Bank’s Pakistan Integrated Household Survey to study the effect of farmer schooling on the application of high-yielding variety technology in Pakistan in 1990–91. Unlike previous studies of the role of schooling in agriculture in less-developed countries, it emulates estimation of Mincer earnings functions to treat schooling as an endogenous variable. This purges the estimates of inconsistency arising from positive correlation between unobserved farmer ability and schooling, and measurement errors in observed schooling. A measure of access to schools identifies the true causal effect of schooling on the use of improved seeds.
Recommended Citation
Hazarika, G., 2002. Endogenous Farmer Schooling and the Application of High‐Yielding Variety Technology in a Less‐Developed Country. Review of Development Economics, 6(1), pp.59-68. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9361.00140
Publication Title
Review of Development Economics
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9361.00140
Comments
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