Publications

by members of

Department of Agricultural Economics and Management
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rehovot, Israel

Working papers

2008

1. Larson, Donald F. & Butzer, Rita & Mundlak, Yair, 2008. "Heterogeneous technology and panel data : the case of the agricultural production function," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4536, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]

2007

1. Kimhi, Ayal & Rubin, Ofir, 2007. "Assessing the Response of Farm Households to Dairy Policy Reform in Israel," Staff General Research Papers 12823, Iowa State University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

2004

1. Ayal Kimhi, 2004. "Growth, Inequality and Labor Markets in LDCs: A Survey," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo GmbH. [Downloadable!]

2003

1. Butzer, Rita & Mundlak, Yair & Larson, Donald F., 2003. "Intersectoral migration in Southeast Asia - evidence from Indonesia, Thailan, and the Philippines," Policy Research Working Paper Series 2949, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]

2002

1. Mundlack, Yair & Larson, Donald F. & Butzer, Rita, 2002. "Determinants of agricultural growth in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand," Policy Research Working Paper Series 2803, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]

2000

1. Ben-David, Dan & Kimhi, Ayal, 2000. "Trade And The Rate Of Income Convergence," CEPR Discussion Papers 2390, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1998

1. Crego, Al & Larson, Donald & Butzer, Rita & Mundlak, Yair, 1998. "A new database on investment and capital for agriculture and manufacturing," Policy Research Working Paper Series 2013, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]

1997

1. Mundlak, Yair & Larson, Donald F. & Crego, Al, 1997. "Agricultural development : issues, evidence, and consequences," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1811, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
2. Mundlak, Yair & Larson, Don & Butzer, Ritz, 1997. "The determinants of agricultural production : a cross-country analysis," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1827, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]

1995

1. Larson, Donald & Mundlak, Yair, 1995. "On the intersectoral migration of agricultural labor," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1425, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]

1993

1. Coeymans, Juan Eduardo & Mundlak, Yair, 1993. "Sectoral growth in Chile: 1962-82," Research reports 95, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). [Downloadable!]

1992

1. Yair Mundlak, 1992. "Agricultural Productivity and Economic Policies: Concepts and Measurements," OECD Development Centre Working Papers 75, OECD Development Centre. [Downloadable!]

1991

1. McGuirk, Anya & Mundlak, Yair, 1991. "Incentives and constraints in the transformation of Punjab agriculture:," Research reports 87, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). [Downloadable!]

1990

1. Mundlak, Yair & Larson, Donald F., 1990. "On the relevance of world agricultural prices," Policy Research Working Paper Series 383, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
2. Yair Mundlak & Domingo Cavallo & Roberto Domenech, 1990. "Economic Policies and Sectoral Growth: Argentina 1913-1984," OECD Development Centre Working Papers 18, OECD Development Centre. [Downloadable!]

1989

1. Mundlak, Yair & Cavallo, Domingo & Domenech, Roberto, 1989. "Agriculture and economic growth in Argentina, 1913-84:," Research reports 76, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). [Downloadable!]
2. Mundlak, Yair & Cavallo, Domingo & Domenech, Roberto, 1989. "Agriculture and economic growth in Argentina, 1913-84: supplement," Research reports 76, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). [Downloadable!]

1982

1. Cavallo, Domingo & Mundlak, Yair, 1982. "Agriculture and economic growth in an open economy: the case of Argentina," Research reports 36, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

1979

1. Mundlak, Yair, 1979. "Intersectoral factor mobility and agricultural growth:," Research reports 6, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

Undated

1. Larson, Donald & Butzer, Rita & Mundlak, Yair & Crego, Al, . "Sectoral Investment and Capital," Instructional Stata datasets for econometrics sectinvcap, Boston College Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

Journal articles

2006

1. Avner Ahituv & Ayal Kimhi, 2006. "Simultaneous estimation of work choices and the level of farm activity using panel data," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press for the Foundation for the European Review of Agricultural Economics, vol. 33(1), pages 49-71, March.
2. Ayal Kimhi, 2006. "Plot size and maize productivity in Zambia: is there an inverse relationship?," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 35(1), pages 1-9, 07. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Catherine Benjamin & Ayal Kimhi, 2006. "Farm work, off-farm work, and hired farm labour: estimating a discrete-choice model of French farm couples' labour decisions," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press for the Foundation for the European Review of Agricultural Economics, vol. 33(2), pages 149-171, June.
4. Sanjaya DeSilva & Robert E. Evenson & Ayal Kimhi, 2006. "Labor Supervision and Institutional Conditions: Evidence from Bicol Rice Farms," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, American Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 88(4), pages 851-865, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Iddo Kan & Ayal Kimhi & Zvi Lerman, 2006. "Farm output, non-farm income and commercialization in rural Georgia," The Electronic Journal of Agricultural and Development Economics, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, vol. 3(2), pages 276-286. [Downloadable!]

2005

1. Yair Mundlak, 2005. "Economic Growth: Lessons from Two Centuries of American Agriculture," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 43(4), pages 989-1024, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Myoung-Jae Lee & Ayal Kimhi, 2005. "Simultaneous equations in ordered discrete responses with regressor-dependent thresholds," Econometrics Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 8(2), pages 176-196, 07. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2004

1. Yair Mundlak & Donald Larson & Rita Butzer, 2004. "Agricultural dynamics in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society and Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd., vol. 48(1), pages 95-126, 03. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Ayal Kimhi, 2004. "Family Composition and Off-Farm Participation Decisions in Israeli Farm Households," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, American Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 86(2), pages 502-512, 05. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Ayal Kimhi & Eliel Rapaport, 2004. "Time Allocation between Farm and Off-Farm Activities in Israeli Farm Households," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, American Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 86(3), pages 716-721, 08. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Dan Ben-David & Ayal Kimhi, 2004. "Trade and the rate of income convergence," Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 13(4), pages 419-441, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2003

1. Kimhi, Ayal, 2003. "Socio-economic determinants of health and physical fitness in southern Ethiopia," Economics and Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 1(1), pages 55-75, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2002

1. Butzer, Rita & Larson, Donald F & Mundlak, Yair, 2002. "Intersectoral Migration in Venezuela," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 50(2), pages 227-48, January.
2. Ahituv, Avner & Kimhi, Ayal, 2002. "Off-farm work and capital accumulation decisions of farmers over the life-cycle: the role of heterogeneity and state dependence," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 68(2), pages 329-353, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2001

1. Mundlak, Yair, 2001. " Explaining Economic Growth," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, American Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 83(5), pages 1154-67. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2000

1. Larson, David F. & Butzer, Rita & Mundlak, Yair & Crego, Al, 2000. "A Cross-Country Database for Sector Investment and Capital," World Bank Economic Review, Oxford University Press, vol. 14(2), pages 371-91, May. [Downloadable!]
2. Kimhi, Ayal, 2000. " Is Part-Time Farming Really a Step in the Way Out of Agriculture?," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, American Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 82(1), pages 38-48, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1999

1. Kimhi, Ayal, 1999. "On the Tradeoff between Computational Simplicity and Asymptotic Properties in Multivariate Probit," Computational Economics, Springer, vol. 13(1), pages 93-101, February. [Downloadable!]
2. Pesquin, Claudio & Kimhi, Ayal & Kislev, Yoav, 1999. "Old Age Security and Inter-Generational Transfer of Family Farms," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press for the Foundation for the European Review of Agricultural Economics, vol. 26(1), pages 19-37, March.
3. Kimhi, Ayal, 1999. "Double-Hurdle and Purchase-Infrequency Demand Analysis: A Feasible Integrated Approach," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press for the Foundation for the European Review of Agricultural Economics, vol. 26(4), pages 425-42, December.
4. Ayal Kimhi, 1999. "Estimation of an endogenous switching regression model with discrete dependent variables: Monte-Carlo analysis and empirical application of three estimators," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 24(2), pages 225-241. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Kimhi, Ayal & Bollman, Ray, 1999. "Family farm dynamics in Canada and Israel: the case of farm exits," Agricultural Economics, Blackwell, vol. 21(1), pages 69-79, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1998

1. Kimhi, Ayal, 1998. "Institutional Environment, Ideological Commitment, and Farmers' Time Allocation: The Case of Israeli Moshavim," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 47(1), pages 27-44, October.

1997

1. Larson, Donald & Mundlak, Yair, 1997. "On the Intersectoral Migration of Agricultural Labor," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 45(2), pages 295-319, January.
2. Kimhi, Ayal, 1997. " Intergenerational Succession in Small Family Businesses: Borrowing Constraints and Optimal Timing of Succession," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 9(4), pages 309-18, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1996

1. Mundlak, Yair, 1996. "Production Function Estimation: Reviving the Primal," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 64(2), pages 431-38, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Ayal Kimhi, 1996. "Demographic composition of farm households and its effect on time allocation," Journal of Population Economics, Springer, vol. 9(4), pages 429-439.
3. Kimhi, Ayal, 1996. "Farmers' time allocation between farm work and off-farm work and the importance of unobserved group effects: evidence from Israeli cooperatives," Agricultural Economics, Blackwell, vol. 14(2), pages 135-142, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1993

1. Mundlak, Yair, 1993. "On the Empirical Aspects of Economic Growth Theory," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 83(2), pages 415-20, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1992

1. Mundlak, Yair & Larson, Donald F, 1992. "On the Transmission of World Agricultural Prices," World Bank Economic Review, Oxford University Press, vol. 6(3), pages 399-422, September.

1991

1. Mundlak, Yair & Cavallo, Domingo & Domenech, Roberto, 1991. "Agriculture and growth in Argentina," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 16(1), pages 10-16, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Coeymans, Juan Eduardo & Mundlak, Yair, 1991. "Aggregate agricultural supply response in Chile, 1962-82," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 16(1), pages 17-22, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1990

1. Mundlak, Yair & Cavallo, Domingo & Domenech, Roberto, 1990. "Effects of Macroeconomic Policies on Sectoral Prices," World Bank Economic Review, Oxford University Press, vol. 4(1), pages 55-79, January.

1987

1. Binswanger, Hans & Yang, Maw-Cheng & Bowers, Alan & Mundlak, Yair, 1987. "On the determinants of cross-country aggregate agricultural supply," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 36(1-2), pages 111-131. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1981

1. Mundlak, Yair & Yahav, Joseph A, 1981. "Random Effects, Fixed Effects, Convolution, and Separation," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 49(6), pages 1399-1416, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Mundlak, Yair, 1981. "On the concept of non-significant functions and its implications for regression analysis," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 16(1), pages 139-149, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1978

1. Mundlak, Yair, 1978. "On the Pooling of Time Series and Cross Section Data," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 46(1), pages 69-85, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Mundlak, Yair, 1978. "Occupational Migration out of Agriculture-A Cross-Country Analysis," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 60(3), pages 392-98, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Mundlak, Yair & Strauss, John, 1978. "Occupational migration out of agriculture in Japan," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 5(1), pages 55-71, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Yair Mundlak, 1978. "Migración del Campo a la Ciudad: Análisis Empírico Basado en Datos Rurales," Cuadernos de Economía (Latin American Journal of Economics), Instituto de Economía. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile., vol. 15(45), pages 143-162. [Downloadable!]

1973

1. Mundlak, Yair & Volcani, Zvi, 1973. "The Correspondence of Efficiency Frontier as a Generalization of the Cost Function," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 14(1), pages 223-33, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1970

1. Mundlak, Yair, 1970. "Further Implications of Distortion in the Factor Market," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 38(3), pages 517-32, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1969

1. Mundlak, Yair & Razin, Assaf, 1969. "Aggregation, Index Numbers and the Measurement of Technical Change," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 51(2), pages 166-75, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

Chapters

2001

1. Mundlak, Yair, 2001. "Production and supply," Handbook of Agricultural Economics, in: B. L. Gardner & G. C. Rausser (ed.), Handbook of Agricultural Economics, edition 1, volume 1, chapter 1, pages 3-85 Elsevier. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1978

1. Fuss, Melvyn & McFadden, Daniel & Mundlak, Yair, 1978. "A Survey of Functional Forms in the Economic Analysis of Production," Histoy of Economic Thought Chapters, in: Fuss, Melvyn & McFadden, Daniel (ed.), Production Economics: A Dual Approach to Theory and Applications, volume 1, chapter 4 McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought. [Downloadable!]

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