Labor Market Performance and the Farm Size-Productivity Relationship in Rural India
| dc.creator | Deininger, Klaus | |
| dc.creator | Jin, Songqing | |
| dc.creator | Liu, Yanyan | |
| dc.creator | Singh, Sudhir | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T19:43:13Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T09:54:46Z | |
| dc.description | In this paper, we use a three-round farm-level panel from rural India to explore the existence and evolution of the inverse relationship between farm size and productivity that has been found in a large empirical literature. While present throughout, the inverse relationship weakened significantly over time; the estimated elasticity of productivity with respect to farm size increased from 0.73 to 0.95 from 1982 to 2007. Key drivers are better functioning labor markets and a narrowing of efficiency differences between own and hired labor, possibly due to greater use of machinery. Structural transformation and a transition towards larger farms thus did not hurt productivity and economic efficiency. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.212720 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/212720/files/India_Labor_0926-DP.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/212720 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/613606 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/212720 | |
| dc.title | Labor Market Performance and the Farm Size-Productivity Relationship in Rural India | |
| dc.type | Text |