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Human Capital and Social Capital : The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910 to 1940
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1998
the center of this belt' was the state of Iowa and we use information from the unique 1915 Iowa State Census to explore … the factors, at both the county and individual levels, that propelled states like Iowa to embrace secondary school … education very early. Iowa's small towns, as well as those across the nation, were the loci of the high school movement. In an …
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Gross farm income and indices of farm production and prices in the United States, 1869-1937
Strauss, Frederick; Bean, Louis H. - 1940
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002882852
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Education and Income in the Early 20th Century : Evidence from the Prairies
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1999
, employed in a variety of sectors and occupations, from the Iowa State Census of 1915. We find that the returns to a year of … root in America around 1910, even in agricultural areas such as Iowa. Census data for 1940, 1950, and 1960 are used to show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471572
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Health Care Expenditure and Farm Income Loss : Evidence from Natural Disasters
Chang, Hung-hao; Meyerhoefer, Chad D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Farmers have higher rates of disability and illness than the general population and more volatile incomes due to frequent crop and livestock losses from extreme weather events. This raises concerns that sudden, weather-related drops in farm income could reduce access to health care for an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013190992
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479160
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461951
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The Economic Impacts of Climate Change : Evidence from Agricultural Profits and Random
Deschenes, Olivier - 2004
This paper measures the economic impact of climate change on US agricultural land. We replicate the previous literature's implementation of the hedonic approach and find that it produces estimates of the effect of climate change that are very sensitive to decisions about the appropriate control...
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Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets and Agricultural Production
Fink, Günther - 2018
Many rural households in low and middle income countries continue to rely on small-scale agriculture as their primary source of income. In the absence of irrigation, income arrives only once or twice per year, and has to cover consumption and input needs until the subsequent harvest. We develop...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453152
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Estimating the Impact of Crop Diversity on Agricultural Productivity in South Africa
Bellora, Cecilia - 2017
Crop biodiversity has the potential to enhance resistance to strains due to biotic and abiotic factors and to improve crop production and farm revenues. To investigate the effect of crop biodiversity on crop productivity, we build a probabilistic model based on ecological mechanisms to describe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455185
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Heterogeneous Impact Dynamics of a Rural Business Development Program in Nicaragua
Carter, Michael R. - 2016
We study the impacts of a rural development program designed to boost the income of the smallfarm sector in Nicaragua. Exploiting the random assignment of treatment, we find statistically and economically significant impacts on gross farm income and investment in productive farm capital. Using...
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