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Yield Performance of Corn under Heat Stress : A Comparison of Hybrid and Open-Pollinated Seeds during a Period of Technological Transformation, 1933-1955

Meyers, Keith - 2020

Starting in the 1930s, commercial hybrid corn seeds rapidly replaced the once predominant open-pollinated varieties planted by farmers. By the mid-1950s almost all corn grown in the United States was of hybrid varieties. Observers have argued that the drought tolerant qualities of these hybrids...

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Risk Response in Agriculture

LaFrance, Jeffrey - 2011

Crop production is subject to supply shocks, and both expected and realized outputs as well as output prices are unknown when inputs are chosen. The process by which producers form expectations is difficult to model, especially when working with aggregate data. We present a necessary and...

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Supply and Effects of Specialty Crop Insurance

Ligon, Ethan - 2011

If the extension of federal crop insurance programs to cover fruit and vegetable production has affected either producer or consumer welfare, then we would expect to see this reflected in output and prices. Exploiting variation in the timing of program introduction in different locations for...

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Economies of Density versus Natural Advantage : Crop Choice on the Back Forty

Holmes, Thomas J. - 2009

We estimate the factors determining specialization of crop choice at the level of individual fields, distinguishing between the role of natural advantage (soil characteristics) and economies of density (scale economies achieved when farmers plant neighboring fields with the same crop). Using...

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Money (Not) to Burn : Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning

Jack, B. Kelsey; Jayachandran, Seema; Kala, Namrata; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Particulate matter significantly reduces life expectancy in India. We use a randomized controlled trial in the Indian state of Punjab to evaluate the effectiveness of conditional cash transfers (also known as payments for ecosystem services, or PES) in reducing crop residue burning, which is a...

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Producer Beliefs and Conservation : The Impact of Perceived Water Scarcity on Irrigation Technology Adoption

Blumberg, Joey; Goemans, Chris; Manning, Dale - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

examine how a producer's beliefs about water shortages influence investment in more efficient irrigation technologies. We then … a more efficient irrigation technology on average. We also present evidence that adoption rates are driven more by …

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Center Pivot Irrigation Systems as a Form of Drought Risk Mitigation in Humid Regions

Cooley, Daniel J.; Smith, Steven M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Irrigation in the Eastern US receives little attention compared to the West, but farmers in humid states of the US …, traditionally reliant on rainfall, have more than tripled irrigation since 1978. We examine this trend in Illinois where there has … been a nearly threefold increase in center pivot irrigation systems (CPIS) installations since 1988. Specifically, we …

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The Consumption Effects of the Disposition to Sell Winners and Hold Losers

Loos, Benjamin - 2020

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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Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda

Jones, Maria - 2020

We examine constraints to adoption of new technologies in the context of hillside irrigation schemes in Rwanda. We … leverage a plot-level spatial regression discontinuity design to produce 3 key results. First, irrigation enables dry season … horticultural production, which boosts on-farm cash profits by 70%. Second, adoption is constrained: access to irrigation causes …

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Understanding Transitory Rainfall Shocks, Economic Growth and Civil Conflict

Miguel, Edward - 2010

Miguel, Satyanath and Sergenti (2004) use rainfall variation as an instrument to show that economic growth is negatively related to civil conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. In the reduced form regression they find that higher rainfall is associated with less conflict. Ciccone (2010) claims that...

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