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Blood for Social Status: Preliminary Evidence from Rural China
Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
Xi Chen acknowledges generous Doctoral Research Grant from the Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell University and precious data set provided by the Development Strategy and Governance Division at IFPRI. Conference Travel Grant provided by the Department of Applied Economics and...
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Fertilizer Subsidies and Voting Patterns: Political Economy Dimensions of Input Subsidy Programs
Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, T.S.; Walle, Nicolas van de - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
president. Rather, voters rewarded the incumbent for reductions in unemployment, poverty, and income inequality. …
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Sensitive Product Treatment in Agricultural Trade Negotiations
Durand-Morat, Alvaro; Wailes, Eric J.; Sharp, Misti - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
The fact that trade, and especially agricultural trade, remains far from free is puzzling, since the superiority of free trade receives overwhelming support among economists (Gawande and Krishna, 2003; Rodrik, 1994). International trade scholars have devoted significant resources to forecasting the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020997
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Policy Responses to 2008 High Food Prices: Domestic Incentives and Global Implications
Woolverton, Andrea E.; Kiawu, James - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
Global food commodity price inflation beginning in 2006 and continuing through mid-2008 became a priority concern for global consumers, producers and policy-makers alike. In response, many governments across the world implemented policies targeting high food commodity prices in their domestic...
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Inequalities in Child Mortality in India: A District-Level Analysis
Bhattacharya, Prabir C.; Chikwama, Cornilius - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
This paper measures the degree of inequality in child mortality rates across districts in India, using data from the … developed districts in all three census years. Further, between 1981 and 2001, the inequality in child mortality seems to have … less developed districts). However, the inequality in female child mortality rates seems to have declined between 1991 and …
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Looking at Pro-Poor Growth from an Agricultural Perspective
Klasen, Stephan; Reimers, Malte - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) or any subsequent set of goals aiming to reduce poverty worldwide. Related research has developed a multitude of instruments to measure pro-poor growth using absolute and...
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Changes in Fruit and Vegetable Consumption over Time and across Regions in China: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis with Quantile Regression
Liu, Kang Ernest; Chang, Hung-Hao; Chern, Wen S. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008
Recently, there has been considerable interest in estimating food demand structure in China due to its huge market for food products. Previous literature has focused on the primary food products such as grains and meats, but studies on fruits and vegetables are limited. To fulfill this gap, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005804643
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Agricultural Prices and Income Distribution among Farmers: A Whole-Household, Multi-Country, Multi-Year Analysis
Rios, Ana R.; Shively, Gerald E.; Masters, William A. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
Recent studies have emphasized that the poorest farmers are often net buyers of key commodities and therefore harmed by rising prices. We use LSMS data from Tanzania, Vietnam and Guatemala to test the degree of net purchases or sales by income level. We find that poorer farmers may be net buyers...
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Employment Growth and Income Inequality: Accounting for Spatial and Sectoral Differences
Pede, Valerien O.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Partridge, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
This paper revisits the inequality-growth relationship accounting for sectoral differences and focusing on US counties … depends on regional income inequality and a number of control variables. Spatial econometrics techniques are used to account … inequality for the Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting sector and the Real Estate, Rental and Leasing sector. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012623
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Effects of Changes to Farm Program Payment Policies on the Distribution of Payments and Income Inequality of Farm Households
Durst, Ron L.; El-Osta, Hisham S. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
government payments and changes in payments as a result of changes to farm program policies on income inequality among farm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020553