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Please suggest the means for tracing and prioritizing major governance issues in Indian agriculture... Quantification issues as well are welcome... Thanks in advance...
28 December 2020 3,862 3 View
Dear all, In economic point of view, how to proceed if i'm interested to study the existing structure of an institutional system, to identify constraints, and improve efficiency? Any basic tools,...
13 February 2018 771 4 View
Dear all, What is the conceptual & estimation differences between a) Capital expenditure, b) Capital formation, c) Investment ? Can someone use any one of the above as a proxy to the rest...
26 December 2017 3,763 5 View
What are the pre-requisites for learning SAM construction & CGE modelling? Are there some not-so-technical texts for it?
05 October 2017 3,758 3 View
Dear all, How to model and which econometric technique to choose when explanatory variables are available at different aggregation levels. i.e. age : household wise observation number of markets:...
12 July 2017 983 6 View
Hi all, What is the commonality between 'price convergence' and 'market integration' of a commodity? Are they inter-related concepts? If so, in which aspects? Thanks.
04 March 2017 1,959 4 View
Hi all, Either for a cross-section or for a time-series of output observations, how to obtain potential levels of output so that one can estimate the output gap? Are there some simple or more...
24 December 2016 718 3 View
Dear All, I'm using panel data for 20 years for 20 entities. The results in different possible analyses i get are, Fixed effects - vs- Random effects: Fixed effect is appropriate But Fixed...
15 July 2016 8,863 4 View
Dear all, I wish to get some preliminary idea on modelling household level / individual level health status of agricultural households / farmers with level of farm-level productivity. Could...
05 May 2016 8,646 4 View
Hi all, Could someone help to understand the differences in decomposing inequality by source of income and by subgroups? Its natural that all individuals/households may not have more than one...
17 February 2016 4,002 3 View
Many a times, we come across the word "Yield Plateau", showing no further improvement in yield per hectare for a crop. If so, what are the major reasons? If one wishes to explain yield plateau...
22 January 2016 2,911 4 View
Hi all, I'm using 3SLS regression model to estimate "Farm-Nonfarm-Poverty Linkages" for a decade among major Indian states. Being a beginner in modelling, i could estimate coefficients of...
12 January 2016 1,423 4 View
Dear all, Are there other ways to combine a set of pre-decided/selected variables into a single variable? Like Human Development Index combines 3 different components, would other ways could also...
05 January 2016 473 11 View
Hi all, I had a regression model with n=5000 approx, Yield/ha = f { farm size + input variables } The output gave R^2 around 40% When i added interactive dummies (5zones * 11 years == 54 dummies)...
16 April 2015 2,586 14 View
Hi all, Could someone help me on fitting 3 stage least squares for the panel data. The panel is of 17 states for 10 years. I can trace upto 2SLS for panel data, not further. OR, would a simple...
10 April 2015 1,726 7 View
Hi all, What is the difference/relation between "capital expenditure" provided in the annual budget documents and "capital formation" provided by the CSO (Central Statistical Office). While...
17 March 2015 2,211 2 View
Few studies I went through indicate evidences of existing yield plateaus in agriculture sector, especially in wheat, and in maize yield levels. But there is not much discussion on such events in...
28 February 2015 242 3 View
Hi all, I wish to go-through the recent advances in poverty analysis. Could you suggest few of those? Thank you.
31 January 2015 8,018 18 View
Hi all, I wish to incorporate the variable(s) that represent governance as an explanatory variable for agricultural productivity? How the term "governance" could be related here? Can someone...
24 January 2015 2,007 17 View
Head Count Ratio and related poverty measures require state-specific poverty lines, upon which poverty indices are obtained. But how these lines are obtained? Is there any way to obtain...
18 January 2015 9,910 7 View
How can i find Atkinson's Index for different quintiles? Would that provide additional information than the index of the overall data?
18 January 2015 6,728 7 View
Other than the conventional BCR,NPV,IRR and Economic Surplus methods, what are other kinds/methods that one could use in assessing the benefits of a scheme/programme?
04 January 2015 4,023 18 View
Hi all, What is the appropriate measure of "labor productivity in agriculture" ? Can Population census data be used to obtain such measure? What is the official data source for labor productivity...
16 November 2014 3,140 6 View
Hi all, I had a regression model where one of the explanatory variable is "age". I added a "age-squared" variable since the distribution of age was in a quadratic form. It is obvious that the...
27 October 2014 5,895 24 View
Endogenous variable in logit model.
08 October 2014 4,581 6 View
For an approximately linear scatter (of a variable, say Y, over a period of time), shall I use the predicted values of linear regression [Y = f(time)] to find an "average annual growth" for a period?
06 September 2014 5,708 14 View
In Quandt-Andrews unknown break point test, there are 3 common critical values to decide the significance of obtained break point, viz., MaxF, ExpF and AveF. Would MaxF is enough to decide...
25 August 2014 3,887 8 View
There are few structural break-point analysis methods like Chow, Quandt-Andrews, Zivot-Andrews, Additive & Innovative outlier methods. Other side, non-linear procedures have also been...
05 August 2014 4,214 2 View
Food production around the world does not seem to be in proportion with the population size. For example africa, a resource rich continent deals with hunger and subsidy based agriculture while...
14 June 2014 8,751 10 View
Is Gini coefficient the only way to measure inequality? Are there some superior measures i.e. that can provide some more details?
05 June 2014 9,498 11 View
Increase in income per capita over time associated with welfare gains of economic growth is believed to cause an economy to shift its dietary pattern towards high value agricultural commodities...
20 May 2014 3,256 8 View
Area expansion in Indian agriculture stopped long ago. With declining yields in major crops like rice and wheat, could cultivable waste lands be absorbed in it? If so, could it be reproduced for...
12 May 2014 3,616 1 View
In a simple time series regression, say Yt = f (Xt), if presence of either +ve/-ve autocorrelation is found, how could one correct for it "WITHOUT DATA TRANSFORMATION"? Would "Prais-Winsten method...
01 May 2014 8,661 4 View
I wish to construct a piecewise linear function for my time series. How should I select the breakpoint where the line shifts? Should I use only the non-linear procedures (SAS & STATA employ "nl"...
26 March 2014 9,702 11 View
Dear all, Considering the different growth curves that are applied in biology as well as in economics, which factors distinguish their assumptions? For example, exponential, logistic,...
20 March 2014 2,487 3 View
Are they interrelated? Few suggest CAGR is a kind of exponential function, which circumstances demand exponential growth rates rather than CAGR?
16 March 2014 3,688 13 View
Tracing convergence across countries has vast literature. To put it simply, a negative relationship between growth and initial income refers to Beta convergence, and declining variance across...
07 March 2014 9,189 6 View
I have employment status data for discrete time-series, with discontinuity, i.e. 1983, 1988, 1994, 2005, 2010. I wish to calculate "employment elasticity" over time. I have 2 options, a)...
04 February 2014 8,588 4 View
Many papers discuss 'least median squares' or 'least trimmed squares' but could anyone suggest a simple procedure? Is box-plot based determination really worthwhile for time-series?
27 January 2014 5,764 24 View
Traditional unit root tests ignore the presence of breaks in time-series. Few methods are available, like Quandt's statistic, Quandt-Andrews' test, Zivot-Andrews and so on, that assume presence...
21 January 2014 1,084 9 View
I'm trying to find a best fit bi-variate model for rice productivity vs. time. Both linear and exponential models seems to be valid, after accounting for auto-correlation. How would i choose...
19 January 2014 676 41 View
In the literature, it seems that for different set of 'h' & 'm' values, the break-points are different. Scatter plot / trend line doesn't seem to serve the case. Of course, it would be then...
13 January 2014 3,185 1 View
