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Ljungqvist, Alexander - 2015

We study the efficiency of capital allocations at state-controlled and privately owned business groups in China. Using …

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Assessing Misallocation in Agriculture : Plots versus Farms

Aragon, Fernando M.; Restuccia, Diego; Rud, Juan Pablo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We assess the extent and cost of misallocation in agriculture in less-developed countries comparing the analysis at the plot and farm levels. Using detailed data from Uganda, we show that the plot-level analysis leads to extremely large estimates of reallocation gains, even after adjusting for...

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Mechanizing Agriculture

Caunedo, Julieta; Kala, Namrata - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Economic activity in developing countries is labor-intensive, low-scale, and family run, with substantial family managerial time spent supervising hired labor. We use a randomized control trial that subsidizes access to rental equipment markets to study the impact of the adoption of mechanized...

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Farm Profits, Prices and Household Behavior

LaFave, Daniel R. - 2020

The farm household model, in which decisions about production and consumption are made simultaneously, lies at the heart of many models of development. Empirically modelling these simultaneous choices is not straightforward. The vast majority of empirical studies assume that farm households...

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Colonial Origins, Property Rights, and the Organization of Agricultural Production : the US Midwest and Argentine Pampas Compared

Edwards, Eric C. - 2020

We examine the origins, persistence, and economic consequences of institutional structures of agricultural production. We compare farms in the Argentine Pampas and US Midwest, regions of similar potential input and output mixes. The focus is on 1910-1914, during the international grain trade...

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Who (Actually) Gets the Farm? Intergenerational Farm Succession in the United States

Haws, Adrian; Just, David; Price, Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We link census records for millions of farm children to identify owner-operators of the family farm in adulthood, providing the first population-level evidence on intergenerational farm transfers. Using our panel of U.S. census data from 1900 to 1940, our analysis supports the primogeniture...

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Mergers and productivity

Kaplan, Steven N. (ed.) - 2000

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The Economic Impacts of the Tobacco Settlement

Cutler, David M. - 2000

whether it was a move toward economic efficiency using data from Massachusetts. Medicaid spending will fall, but only a modest … amount ($0.1 billion). The efficiency issue turns mainly on the treatment of health benefits from reduced smoking induced by … the settlement. We conclude that the settlement was a move towards economic efficiency …

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Does Public Insurance Improve the Efficiency of Medical Care? Medicaid Expansions and Child Hospitalizations

Dafny, Leemore - 2000

One of the benefits commonly claimed for expanded public health insurance is improved efficiency of medical care …

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Market Provision of Public Goods : The Case of Broadcasting

Anderson, Simon P. - 2000

This paper studies the market provision of a specific type of public good: radio and television broadcasts. Its main focus is to explore the ability of the market to provide broadcasting efficiently in a world in which broadcasters earn revenues by selling time to advertisers and advertisements...

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