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Mis-specification in Farm Productivity Analysis: The Role of Land Quality

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Bhalla, Surjit S
Roy, Prannoy L
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A stylized fact of development literature is that there is an inverse relationship between farm size and land productivity. This has been interpreted to indicate that labor dualism is a pervasive phenomenon in the rural areas of developing countries. A large survey (1976-77) of Indian farm households is used to test the existence of the inverse relationship after accounting for farm-specific land quality factors. Such factors weaken significantly, and in many areas eliminate, the "observed" inverse relationship. Copyright 1988 by Royal Economic Society.

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Volume (Year): 40 (1988)
Issue (Month): 1 (March)
Pages: 55-73
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