Risk attitudes, knowledge, skills and agricultural productivity
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Agriculture; Knowledge; Risk attitudes;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- Q00 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - General
- Q10 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2018-08-13 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2018-08-13 (Development)
- NEP-SEA-2018-08-13 (South East Asia)
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