Risk and household behavior in Pakistan's agriculture /
Takashi Kurosaki
- Tokyo : Institute of Developing Economies (IDE) , 1998
- x, 165p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- I.D.E. occasional papers series ; no. 34 .
Revision of the author's doctoral dissertation (Stanford, 1995).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-162) and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1 Risk and Household Behavior in Development Economics -- 2 Study Area and Sample Households -- 3 Production Environment and Yield Risk -- 4 Output Markets and Price Risk -- 5 Variability in Net Profits at the Individual Farm Level -- 6 Determinants of Crop Choices under Uncertainty -- 7 Crops, Livestock, and Household Income-Consumption -- 8 Fodder Price Risk and Evolution of Rural Markets -- 9 Household Decisions under Uncertainty and Rural -- Development-Concluding Discussion -- References -- Index.