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Will China's WTO Accession Worsen Rural Poverty?

Anderson, Kym; Huang, Jikun; Ianchovichina, Elena - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Many fear China’s accession to WTO will impoverish its farmers, via greater import competition in its agricultural markets. We explore that possibility bearing in mind that, even if producer prices of some (land-intensive) farm products fall, prices of other (labour-intensive) farm and...

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Determinants of the Choice of Migration Destination

Fafchamps, Marcel; Shilpi, Forhad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper examines migrants' choice of destination conditional on migration. To this end, we design an empirical strategy which remedies both migration selection and unobserved heterogeneity problems. The study uses data from two rounds of Nepal Living Standard Surveys and a Population Census...

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Education and Household Welfare

Fafchamps, Marcel; Shilpi, Forhad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Using census data from Nepal we examine how the partial derivatives of predicted household welfare vary with parental education.We focus on fertility, child survival, schooling, and child labor. Female education is not as strongly associated with beneficial outcomes as is often assumed. Male...

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Intermediaries, transport costs and interlinked transactions

Lefèvre, Mélanie; Tharakan, Joe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Transport costs play a key role in agricultural markets in developing countries and are one of the causes of poverty amongst farmers that are geographically isolated. Another characteristic of agricultural markets is that they often involve interlinked transactions. However, the existing...

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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income and Civil Conflict in Colombia

Angrist, Joshua; Kugler, Adriana D. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. On the other hand, these resources may also provide one of the few reliable sources of income in the...

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Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from Eleven Countries over 25 years

Michaels, Guy; Natraj, Ashwini; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

technology (like R&D). Technologies can account for up to a quarter of the growth in demand for the college educated in the …

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Factor Price Equalization in the UK?

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K.; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

differences, unobserved region-industry factor quality differences and variation in production technology across industries. We … findings, including multiple cones of diversification, region-industry technology differences, agglomeration, and increasing …

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Vertical Integration and Technology: Theory and Evidence

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Griffith, Rachel; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

relationship between technology intensity and vertical integration from a simple incomplete contracts model. Then, we investigate … find that the technology intensities of downstream (producer) and upstream (supplier) industries have opposite effects on … measures of technology intensity, with alternative estimation strategies, and with or without controlling for a number of firm …

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Technology and Changes in Skill Structure: Evidence from an International Panel of Industries

Machin, Steve; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

computerization instead of R&D as a measure of technology; (iv) in the Anglo-Saxon countries a maximum of one-third of the aggregate …

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Technology, Organization and Productivity in Services: Lessons from Britain and the United States Since 1870

Broadberry, Stephen N; Ghosal, Sayantan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

management, as a key factor. A model of the interaction between technology, organization and economic performance is then … adjustment in technology-using sectors if it is not suited to the social capabilities of the society; (4) reversal of …

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