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Land Reform and Sex Selection in China
Li, Hongbin; Almond, Douglas; Zhang, Shuang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Following the death of Mao in 1976, abandonment of collective farming lifted millions from poverty and heralded sweeping pro-market policies. How did China's excess in male births respond to rural land reform? In newly-available data from over 1,000 counties, a second child following a daughter...
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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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Policies for Inclusive Urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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Forage-livestock policies designed to improve livelihoods in Western China: a critical review
Brown, Colin; Waldron, Scott; Yuman, Liu; Longworth, John - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 4, pp. 367-381
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how the promotion of integrated forage/ruminant-livestock industries … policy relates to other measures intended to improve household livelihoods. Findings – The outcomes of this forage-livestock … households and markets. Originality/value – Identifying the impacts of policy and institutional settings associated with forage-livestock …
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Is body mass human capital in sumo? Outcome of globalization and formation of human capital in Japan
Yamamura, Eiji - In: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 31 (2014) C, pp. 53-71
Sumo wrestling is a traditional fighting sport in Japan and has been popular since the 18th century (the Edo period). Using a data set for all sumo wrestlers in the post-World War II period, this paper investigates how wrestlers’ body mass index (BMI) is associated with their win rate and...
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Smallholder Adjustment in Middle-Income Countries: Issues and Policy Responses
Cervantes-Godoy, Dalila; Brooks, Jonathan - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2008
This paper discusses the adjustment pressures faced by smallholders in middle-income countries, considers the types of … framework is the recognition that the long-term (i.e. inter-generational) future of the majority of smallholders lies outside …, income diversification (either within or outside agriculture) and the movement to jobs in other sectors. In order to …
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Macronutrients and obesity: Revisiting the calories in, calories out framework
Riera-Crichton, Daniel; Tefft, Nathan - In: Economics & Human Biology 14 (2014) C, pp. 33-49
Recent clinical research has studied weight responses to varying diet composition, but the contribution of changes in macronutrient intake and physical activity to rising population weight remains controversial. Research on the economics of obesity typically assumes a “calories in, calories...
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Chapter 47 Livestock Productivity in Developing Countries: An Assessment
Nin, Alejandro; Ehui, Simeon; Benin, Samuel - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2461-2532). 2007
This chapter assesses livestock productivity in the developing world in the context of growing demand for livestock … international markets. Issues related to the roles of the various partners in livestock research are also considered and modalities … discussed. The chapter starts discussing the factors affecting livestock development and how these factors interact at different …
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Distributive Effects of the Cap in the Italian Livestock Sector
Moro, Daniele; Sckokai, Paolo; Soregaroli, Claudio - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2002) 3
livestock sector in Italy. To compute monetary transfers we refer to the methodology proposed by Tarditi (1999), which …
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Impact of biofuel policies on livestock production in the United States
Miljkovic, Dragan; Shaik, Saleem; Braun, Dane - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 34 (2012) 6, pp. 817-831
This study was conducted to analyze the direct and indirect effects of ethanol policy on livestock production. Results … of the theoretical and empirical model indicate the possibility of ethanol policy affecting livestock production in the …
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