Land Measurement Bias and Its Empirical Implications: Evidence from a Validation Exercise.
We investigate how land size measurements vary across three land measurement methods (farmer estimated, GPS, and compass-and-rope) and the effect of land measurement error on the inverse farm size relationship and input demand functions. Our findings indicate that self-reported measurement bias lead...
| Publicado en: | Economic Development & Cultural Change Vol. 67; no. 3; pp. 595 - 625 |
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University of Chicago Press
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