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Modeling Processor Market Power and the Incidence of Agricultural Policy : A Non-parametric Approach

Goodhue, Rachael E. - 2011

This paper examines interactions between market power and agricultural policy in the U.S. wheat flour milling industry using a non-parametric approach. The analysis focuses on marketing loan and pre-1986 deficiency payment programs; farmers' payments from these programs are dependent on whether...

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Gaining Steam : Incumbent Lock-in and Entrant Leapfrogging

Hornbeck, Richard; Hsu, Shanon; Humlum, Anders; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine the long transition from water to steam power in US manufacturing, focusing on early users of mechanical power: lumber and flour mills. Digitizing Census of Manufactures manuscripts for 1850 to 1880, we show that as steam costs declined, manufacturing activity grew faster in counties...

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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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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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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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Realizing the gains from trade : export crops, marketing costs, and poverty

Balat, Jorge F. - 2007

"This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. We claim that the marketing costs that emerge when the commercialization of export crops requires intermediaries can lead to lower participation into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty....

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The Welfare Cost of Business Cycles Revisited : Finite Lives and Cyclical Variation in Idiosyncratic Risk

Storesletten, Kjetil - 2000

This paper investigates the welfare costs of business cycles in a heterogeneous agent, overlapping generations economy which is distinguished by idiosyncratic labor market risk. Aggregate variation arises both in terms of aggregate productivity shocks and countercyclical variation in the...

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Expanding Access to Clean Water for the Rural Poor : Experimental Evidence from Malawi

Dupas, Pascaline - 2020

Using data from an 18-month randomized trial, we estimate large and sustained impacts on water purification and child health of a program providing monthly coupons for free water treatment solution (diluted chlorine) to households with young children. The program is more effective and much more...

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The Welfare Effects of Encouraging Rural-Urban Migration

Lagakos, David - 2018

replicate a field experiment that subsidized migration in rural Bangladesh, leading to significant increases in both migration …

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Realizing the Gains From Trade : Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty

Balat, Jorge - 2007

This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. We claim that the marketing costs that emerge when the commercialization of export crops requires intermediaries can lead to lower participation into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. We...

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