Development strategies increasingly emphasize agricultural development, employment, and equity; it is therefore important to examine the role of education in light of these new emphases. The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the conclusions of a number of studies of the effect of a farmer's educational level and exposure to extension services on his productivity. Eighteen studies conducted in low-income countries provided 37 sets of farm data that allow a statistical estimation of the effect of education. The overall conclusion of this paper is that farm productivity increases as a result of a farmer's completing at least 4 additional years of elementary education rather than none. Also, the effects of education were much more likely to be positive in modernizing agricultural environments than in traditional ones.
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Author
Lockheed, M. Jamison, Dean T. Lau, Lawrence J.
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Document Date
1980/10/31
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Document Type
Journal Article
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Report Number
REP166
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Volume No
1
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Total Volume(s)
1
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Disclosure Date
2010/07/10
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Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Doc Name
Farmer education and farm efficiency : a survey
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Keywords
Agricultural education; Agricultural engineering; Agricultural extension; Agricultural productivity; Data analysis; Educational evaluation; Modernization; Regression analysis; Sampling
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Lockheed, M. Jamison, Dean T. Lau, Lawrence J.
Farmer education and farm efficiency : a survey (English). World Bank reprint series ; no. REP 166 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/492301467980464502/Farmer-education-and-farm-efficiency-a-survey