Agricultural productivity and the sectoral reallocation of labor in rural India

How do shocks to agricultural productivity affect the allocation of labor across sectors of the economy? To answer this, I use data from rural India to show that exogenous increases in agricultural productivity — caused by abnormally high levels of precipitation — lead to an increase in the labor sh...

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Published in:	Journal of development economics Vol. 135; pp. 488 - 503
Main Author:	Emerick, Kyle
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier B.V 01.11.2018
Subjects:	Agricultural productivity Labor allocation O13 J43 Q10 Agricultural productivity Labor allocation
ISSN:	0304-3878, 1872-6089
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