Adapting household behavior to agricultural technology in West Bengal, India: wage labor, fertility, and child schooling determinants

An attempt is made to analyze rural households within a framework where adoption of a new technology, labor force participation, fertility, and child education are endogenously determined subject to physical, economic, demographic, and policy constraints. The model of the farm household assumes that...

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Published in:	Economic development and cultural change 1994-10, Vol.43 (1), p.91-115
Main Author:	Mukhopadhyay, S.K. (Yale University)
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	ACTIVIDADES COMPLEMENTARIAS (FINCA) ACTIVITE COMPLEMENTAIRE DES RURAUX ADOPCION DE INNOVACIONES ADOPTION DE L'INNOVATION Adults Agricultural Development Agricultural land AGRICULTURAL MANPOWER Agricultural Technology Agriculture Appropriate technology BENGALA OCCIDENTAL BENGALE OCCIDENTAL child education Decision Making Development Policy Economic Factors EDUCACION EDUCATION Emerging technology Families & family life Family Farms FARM INCOME Female fertility FERTILIDAD FERTILITE FERTILITY Green Revolution HIGH YIELDING VARIETIES HOGARES HOUSEHOLDS India INNOVATION ADOPTION Labor LABOR FORCE Labour force MAIN D'OEUVRE MANO DE OBRA MANPOWER Mathematical models Men MENAGE OFF FARM EMPLOYMENT Relationship RENTA DE LA EXPLOTACION Resource allocation REVENU DE L'EXPLOITATION Rural areas Rural Development Socioeconomic factors Studies Technological change Technology VARIEDADES DE ALTO RENDIMIENTO VARIETE A HAUT RENDEMENT Wage rate Wages WEST BENGAL West Bengal, India
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