The human capital effect on productivity and agricultural frontier expansion in Brazil
Pedro Henrique Batista de Barros (pedrohbarros@usp.br),
Gustavo Henrique Castro and
Naercio Menezes-Filho
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Pedro Henrique Batista de Barros: Departamento de Economia, Universidade de São Paulo
No 6-2022, TD NEREUS from Núcleo de Economia Regional e Urbana da Universidade de São Paulo (NEREUS)
Abstract:
Agricultural production expansion is an important strategy to encourage structural changes and lead to economic development. However, the increase in the agricultural production can occur in two different ways: through productivity - intensive margin - and through area expansion - extensive margin. Human capital can enhance production both ways, but its effects remain little explored in the literature. This paper aims to investigate the effect of human capital on the increase in agricultural productivity and on the expansion of the agricultural frontiers in Brazil. The results indicate that human capital has a positive effect on these albeit with varying intensities and significant heterogeneities. Human capital affects agricultural productivity more in agricultural frontier regions where there is often a shortage of skilled labor. However, human capital does not affect the expansion of agricultural area in consolidated agricultural regions of the country.
Keywords: Agricultural Productivity; Frontier Expansion; Human Capital; Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 O13 O15 Q10 Q12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2022-10-27
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-dev, nep-eff and nep-gro
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