Chapter 43 Agriculture and Human Capital in Economic Growth: Farmers, Schooling and Nutrition

Handbook of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 2281-2341

  Huffman, Wallace E ^a   Orazem, Peter F ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agricultural household models; agricultural transformation; economic growth; farmers; health; human capital; nutrition; schooling; two sector models

Indexed keywords

EID: 66049105047     PISSN: 15740072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0072(06)03043-X     Document Type: Review

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