The human capital effect on productivity and agricultural frontier expansion in Brazil
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Keywords
Agricultural Productivity; Frontier Expansion; Human Capital; Education;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- Q10 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - General
- Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2022-12-05 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2022-12-05 (Development)
- NEP-EFF-2022-12-05 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-GRO-2022-12-05 (Economic Growth)
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