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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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De Facto and De Jure Property Rights : Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers

Alston, Lee J. - 2009

We present a conceptual framework to better understand the interaction between settlement and the emergence of de facto … depending on the violence potentials of de facto and de jure claimants. We examine land settlement and conflict on the frontiers … relatively peaceful where claimants have reasons to organize collectively (Australia and the U.S.). The settlement process will …

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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development : An Empirical Investigation

Acemoglu, Daron - 2000

We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Our argument is that Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies, with different associated institutions. The choice of...

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Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Jobs on Youth : 5-year Experimental Evidence on Factory Job Offers and Cash Grants in Ethiopia

Blattman, Christopher - 2019

We study two interventions for underemployed youth across five Ethiopian sites: a $300 grant to spur self-employment, and a job offer to an industrial firm. Despite significant impacts on occupational choice, income, and health in the first year, after five years we see nearly complete...

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The Effects of Decentralized and Video-based Extension on the Adoption of Integrated Soil Fertility Management – Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia

Hörner, Denise - 2019

adoption of integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) among 2,382 farmers in Ethiopia using a randomized controlled trial …

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Productivity Dispersion and Persistence Among the World's Most Numerous Firms

Maue, Casey C. - 2020

A vast firm productivity literature finds that otherwise similar firms differ widely in their productivity and that these differences persist through time, with important implications for the broader macroeconomy. These stylized facts derive largely from studies of manufacturing firms in wealthy...

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Africa's Manufacturing Puzzle : Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian Firms

Diao, Xinshen; Ellis, Mia; McMillan, Margaret Stokes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

firms, one for Tanzania covering 2008-2016 and one for Ethiopia covering 1996-2017. Our analysis reveals a dichotomy between …

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Does Food Aid Harm the Poor? Household Evidence from Ethiopia

Levinsohn, James - 2005

This paper uses household-level data from Ethiopia to investigate the impact of food aid on the poor. We find that food … aid in Ethiopia is "pro-poor." Our results indicate that (i) net buyers of wheat are poorer than net sellers of wheat, (ii …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations : Evidence from Ethiopia

Abebe, Girum - 2018

We quantify foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among domestic plants in districts that attracted a large greenfield foreign plant and districts where greenfield FDI was licensed but not yet operational. Treated and untreated...

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Occupational Choice in Early Industrializing Societies : Experimental Evidence on the Income and Health Effects of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work

Blattman, Christopher - 2016

As low-income countries industrialize, workers choose between informal self-employment and low-skill manufacturing. What do workers trade off, and what are the long run impacts of this occupational choice? Self-employment is thought to be volatile and risky, but to provide autonomy and...

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