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The Impact of Rainfall on Rice Output in Indonesia
Levine, David I. - 2014
rainfall shocks on rice output at the district level. Our analysis makes use of local meteorological data on rainfall in … combination with government administrative data on district-level rice output in the 1990s. We find that deviations from mean … local rainfall are positively associated with district-level rice output. 10% higher rainfall leads metric tons of rice …
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A Sticky-Price View of Hoarding
Hansman, Christopher - 2020
promotion or for the purpose of retail arbitrage. Using US supermarket scanner data covering the 2008 Global Rice Crisis, an … episode driven by an observable cost shock due an Indian ban on raw rice exports, we find that sticky prices account for a …
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Contracting out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery : Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2015
which a procurement process was introduced that allowed citizens to bid to take over the implementation of a subsidized rice … reported the quality of the rice improved. Bidding committees may have avoided quality problems by choosing bidders who had …
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"Rain Follows the Plow" and Dryfarming Doctrine : The Climate Information Problem and Homestead Failure in the Upper Great Plains, 1890-1925
Libecap, Gary D. - 2000
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the North American agricultural frontier moved for the first time into semi-arid regions where farming was vulnerable to drought. Farmers who migrated to the region had to adapt their crops, techniques, and farm sizes to better fit the environment. But...
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Agrarian Origins of Individualism and Collectivism
Fiszbein, Martín; Jung, Yeonha; Vollrath, Dietrich - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the influence of agricultural labor intensity on individualism across U.S. counties. To measure historical labor intensity in agriculture we combine data on crop-specific labor requirements and county-specific crop mix around 1900. To address endogeneity we exploit climate-induced...
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Colonial Origins, Property Rights, and the Organization of Agricultural Production : the US Midwest and Argentine Pampas Compared
Edwards, Eric C. - 2020
We examine the origins, persistence, and economic consequences of institutional structures of agricultural production. We compare farms in the Argentine Pampas and US Midwest, regions of similar potential input and output mixes. The focus is on 1910-1914, during the international grain trade...
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The Impact of the WWI Agricultural Boom and Bust on Female Opportunity Cost and Fertility
Kitchens, Carl T. - 2020
Using variation in crop prices induced by large swings in demand World War I, we examine the fertility response to increases in crop revenues during the period 1910-1930. Our estimates from samples utilizing both complete count decennial census microdata and newly collected county-level data...
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The Red Queen and the Hard Reds : Productivity Growth in American Wheat, 1800-1940
Olmstead, Alan L. - 2002
The standard treatment of U.S. agriculture asserts that, before the 1930s, productivity growth was almost exclusively the result of mechanization rather than biological innovations. This paper shows that, to the contrary, U.S. wheat production witnessed a biological revolution during the 19th...
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How Large Are the Gains from Economic Integration? Theory and Evidence from U.S. Agriculture, 1880-1997
Costinot, Arnaud - 2016
In this paper we develop a new approach to measuring the gains from economic integration based on a generalization of the Ricardian model in which heterogeneous factors of production are allocated to multiple sectors in multiple local markets based on comparative advantage. We implement this...
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Agro-Ecosystem Productivity and the Dynamic Response to Shocks
Chavas, Jean-Paul - 2016
This paper investigates the nonlinear dynamic response to shocks, relying on a threshold quantile autoregression (TQAR) model as a flexible representation of stochastic dynamics. The TQAR model can identify zones of stability/instability and characterize resilience and traps. Resilience means...
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