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标题：Effect of modern rice varieties and irrigation on household income distribution in Nepalese villages
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作者：Thapa, Ganesh ; Otsuka, Keijiro ; Barker, Randolph 等
期刊名称：Journal of Agribusiness
印刷版ISSN：0738-8950
出版年度：1992
页码：245-265
出版社：Journal of Agribusiness
摘要：Since high-yielding modern rice varieties (MVs) are adopted only in favorable production environments, significant regional productivity differentials have emerged in Nepal. This study explores the distributional consequences of such differential MV adoption based on an intensive survey of favorable and unfavorable villages. We found that MV adoption increased returns to land but decreased family labor earnings from rice production, as it facilitated the substitution of hired for family labor. As a result, the differential MV adoption did not significantly worsen the household income distribution according to the results of the counterfactual Gini decomposition analysis.