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Human Capital, Innovation, and Climate Policy: An Integrated Assessment

Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica; Tavoni, Massimo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper looks at the interplay between human capital and innovation in the presence of climate and educational … moderate, short-term consumption loss. Human capital is complement to all forms of innovation and an educational policy … stimulates both energy and general purpose innovation. This result has important policy implications considering the growing …

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Culture, Politics and Innovation: Evidence from the Creameries

O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

separator and the cooperative creamery. It asks whether variables identified as important for innovation and growth by cross …

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Challenges and Opportunities for Resource Rich Economies

van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The political economy of resource rich countries is surveyed. The empirical evidence suggests that countries with a large share of primary exports in GNP have bad growth records and high inequality, especially if the quality of institutions and the rule of law are bad. The economic argument that...

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Weather shocks and English wheat yields, 1690-1871

Brunt, Liam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We estimate a time series model of weather shocks on English wheat yields for the early nineteenth century and use it to predict weather effects on yield levels from 1697 to 1871. This reveals that yields in the 1690s were depressed by unusually poor weather; and those in the late 1850s were...

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A Second Look at the Pesticides Initiative Program: Evidence from Senegal

Cadot, Olivier; Jaud, Mélise - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates whether the Pesticides Initiative Program has significantly affected the export performance of Senegal's horticulture industry. We apply two main microeconometric techniques, difference-in-difference and matching difference-in-differences to identify the effect of the...

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Why Governments Tax or Subsidize Trade: Evidence From Agriculture

Gawande, Kishore; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

in agriculture. We use a new data set on nominal rates of assistance (NRA) across a number of commodities spanning the … quantitative and price-based instruments used to regulate agriculture The data set admits consideration of effective taxes and …

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EU Trade Barriers in the Agri-food Sector: When Protection Breeds Dependence

Cadot, Olivier; Gallezot, Jacques; Suwa Eisenmann, Akiko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper looks for firm-level evidence that high rates of protection breed concentration of firm activities into highly protected sectors, endogenously generating vested interests in the maintenance of protection. We combine data on the EU’s trade protection for food and agricultural...

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The Origins and Early Impact of the Minimum Wage in Agriculture

Gowers, Robin; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper examines the effects on wages and employment of the minimum wage in agriculture in the United Kingdom during …

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The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment

Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We exploit regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our results show that the introduction of the...

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Food Subsidies and Inflation in Developing Countries: A Bridge Between Structuralism and Monetarism

Parkin, Vincent; Srinivasan, T G; Vines, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

This paper examines the efficacy of food consumption subsidies as anti-inflation policy in developing countries characterized by rigidities of food supply. First a standard structuralist model is utilized to show that though a policy of food consumption subsidies brings down inflation in the...

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