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The Food Problem and the Aggregate Productivity Consequences of Climate Change
Nath, Ishan B. - 2020
heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to … perversely pulls labor into agriculture where its productivity suffers most and reallocation exacerbates the global decline in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481491
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The Impact of Retaliatory Tariffs on Agricultural and Food Trade
Carter, Colin A. - 2020
This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the … United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481730
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Ricardo's Theory of Comparative Advantage : Old Idea, New Evidence
Costinot, Arnaud - 2012
crops of 1.6 million parcels of land in 55 countries around the world. Crucially, this dataset contains information about … output predicted by Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage. Despite all of the real-world considerations from which this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460690
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Praying for Rain
Espín-Sánchez, José-Antonio; Gil-Guirado, Salvador; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
prediction in an original data set of whether ethnic groups around the world traditionally prayed for rain. We find that prayer … for rain is more likely among ethnic groups dependent on intensive agriculture for subsistence and that ethnic groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322798
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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations
Kleven, Henrik - 2019
This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479479
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International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being
Helliwell, John F. - 2009
This paper uses the first three waves of the Gallup World Poll to investigate differences across countries, cultures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463927
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Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond "Basic Needs"
Tella, Rafael Di - 2008
-lasting. Finally we study a cross section of nations in 2005 from the World Gallup Poll and find that the past 45 years of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464111
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Financial Systems, Economic Growth, and Globalization
Rousseau, Peter L. - 2001
formal quantitative analysis. We begin with studies of the Dutch Republic, England, the U.S., France, Germany and Japan that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470401
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Internationalized Production in World Output
Lipsey, Robert E. - 1995
over the last two decades, but it was still, in 1990, only about 7 percent of world output. The share was higher, at 15 …,' which are about 60 percent of world output. Given all the attention that 'globalization' has received from scholars …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473482
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International Comparisons of Educational Attainment
Barro, Robert J. - 1993
Many theories of economic growth stress the role of human capital in the form of education, but empirical studies have been hampered by inadequate data. We describe a data set on educational attainment that we have constructed for 129 countries over five-year periods from 1960-1985. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474610