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Is Fish Brain Food or Brain Poison? Sea Surface Temperature, Methyl-mercury and Child Cognitive Development
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2020
We exploit variation in the composition of local fish catches around the time of birth using administrative and census … the causal effects of early-life consumption of methylmercury (MeHg) and DHA, elements contained in fish, on cognitive … development. Using an IV strategy based on an equilibrium model of fish supply that exploits time-series variation in oceanic SST …
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A Dynamic Model of Price Discrimination and Inventory Management at the Fulton Fish Market
Graddy, Kathryn - 2009
We estimate a dynamic profit-maximization model of a fish wholesaler who can observe consumer characteristics, set … the key features observed in a set of high quality transaction-level data on fish sales collected at the Fulton fish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463630
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Non-Parametric Demand Analysis with an Application to the Demand for Fish
Angrist, Joshua D. - 1995
estimates of average derivatives in a simultaneous equations model. These ideas are illustrated using data from the Fulton Fish … market in New York City to estimate an average elasticity of wholesale demand for fresh fish. The weighting function …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473812
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On the Economics of Extinction and Mass Extinctions
Taylor, Michael Scott; Weder, Rolf - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Human beings' domination of the planet has not been kind to many species worldwide. This is to be expected. Humans have radically altered natural landscapes, harvested heavily from the ocean, and altered the climate in an unprecedented way. Recent concerns over the extent and rate of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447273
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Subsidies and the African Green Revolution : Direct Effects and Social Network Spillovers of Randomized Input Subsidies in Mozambique
Carter, Michael - 2019
The Green Revolution bolstered agricultural yields and rural well-being in Asia and Latin America, but bypassed sub-Saharan Africa. We study the first randomized controlled trial of a government-implemented input subsidy program (ISP) in Africa. A temporary subsidy for Mozambican maize farmers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480152
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Modeling the Impacts of Agricultural Support Policies on Emissions from Agriculture
Laborde, David - 2020
To understand the impacts of support programs on global emissions, this paper considers the impacts of domestic subsidies, price distortions at the border, and investments in emission-reducing technologies on global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481785
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The Buck Stops Where? The Distribution of Agricultural Subsidies
Goodwin, Barry K. - 2011
The U.S. has a long history of providing generous support for the agricultural sector. A recent omnibus package of farm legislation, the 2008 Farm Bill (P.L. 110-246) will provide in excess of $284 billion in financial support to U.S. agriculture over the 2008-2012 period. Commodity program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461964
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Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity : Lessons from China
Huang, Jikun - 2008
Tariffs on agricultural products fell sharply in China both prior to, and as a consequence of, China's accession to the WTO. The paper examines the nature of agricultural trade reform in China since 1981, and finds that protection was quite strongly negative for most commodities, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464695
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Agricultural productivity and producer behavior
Schlenker, Wolfram (ed.) - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2019
Heterogeneous yield impacts from adoption of genetically engineered corn and the importance of controlling for weather /Jayson L. Lusk, Jesse Tack, and Nathan P. Hendricks --Impacts of climate change and extreme weather on US agricultural productivity: evidence and projection /Sun Ling Wang,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012036953
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Endogenous Participation in Agricultural Support Programs and Ad ValoremEquivalent Modelling
Whalley, John - 1988
This paper argues that a price wedge treatment of agricultural supports can seriously misrepresent their welfare and quantity effects. We make our point by focusing on pre-1985 US wheat programs, but features of programs in many other countries lead to comparable problems with the ad valorem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476470