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, exploiting a natural experiment associated with the expansion of suitable crops for cultivation in the course of the Columbian …
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provide in each cell of land covering the entire globe actual yields of cultivated crops and potential yields for 18 crops … produced current crops in each cell according to potential yields, the rich-poor agricultural yield gap would virtually …
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Africa. Crop agriculture has expanded considerably across the continent in recent years. Much of this expansion has occurred … on agricultural development projects across Africa from 1995-2014. We find that implementing agricultural projects in …
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security. While numerous experimental and farm-level studies have found that adoption of genetically engineered crops has been … county-level corn yields from 1980 to 2015 in conjunction with data on adoption of genetically engineered crops, weather, and … genetically engineered crops have increased yields above trend. There is marked heterogeneity in the effect of adoption of …
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We use individual-level data on all security trades, holdings, spending, and income from an online retail bank. We study the effects of an exogenous change in the displayed purchase prices of the mutual funds in individuals' portfolios. We find that individuals are more likely to sell what we...
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Crop biodiversity has the potential to enhance resistance to strains due to biotic and abiotic factors and to improve crop production and farm revenues. To investigate the effect of crop biodiversity on crop productivity, we build a probabilistic model based on ecological mechanisms to describe...
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airborne sulfate levels and yields for corn and soybean. We estimate crop revenue losses for these two crops around $1 …
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US crops face higher losses as growing season temperatures rise and destructive disasters become commonplace. The …
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A large agronomic literature models the implications of climate change for a variety of crops and locations around the …---of each of 10 crops for each of 1.7 million fields covering the surface of the Earth, we find that the impact of climate …
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Land market incompleteness is argued to have pervasive effects in Sub-Saharan Africa, including on agricultural …
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