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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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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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Katharine Coman's "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation," published in March 1911 in the first issue of the American … and irrigation districts that emerged in the American West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in response to …
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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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algorithm's cutoff using a regression discontinuity design, we find that automated irrigation violation warnings cause … irrigation policy enforcement. Our findings highlight the merits of implementing multidimensional conservation programs …
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adhere to the prescribed schedule use more water than those following a more flexible irrigation pattern. For our application …
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Agricultural development may support broader economic development, though agricultural expansion may also crowd-out local non-agricultural activity. On the United States Plains, areas over the Ogallala aquifer experienced windfall agricultural gains when post-WWII technologies increased farmers'...
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Recent writings on China's water situation often portray China's water problems as severe and suggest that water availability could threaten the sustainability of China's future growth. However, China's high growth of the last 20 years or more has been obtained with relatively little increase in...
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, technological improvements made groundwater from the Ogallala aquifer available for irrigation. Comparing counties over the Ogallala … with nearby similar counties, groundwater access increased irrigation intensity and initially reduced the impact of …
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In the context of recent California drought years, we investigate empirically whether consumers are willing to pay for more efficient water usage in the production of four California agricultural products. We implement an internet survey choice experiment for avocados, almonds, lettuce, and...
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