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Environmental Drivers of Agricultural Productivity Growth : CO2 Fertilization of US Field Crops

Taylor, Charles A.; Schlenker, Wolfram - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

> equates to a 0.5%, 0.6%, and 0.8% yield increase for corn, soybeans, and wheat, respectively. Viewed retrospectively, 10%, 30 …

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Filling a Niche? The Maize Productivity Impacts of Adaptive Breeding by a Local Seed Company in Kenya

Bird, Samuel S. - 2020

an under-serviced equilibrium. To study the empirical veracity of this model, we study the disruption of the maize seed … capital allowed a local seed company to expand and target a niche agro-ecological zone with adaptively-bred maize varieties. A … three-year randomized controlled trial reveals that the impacts of these seed varieties on farmer yields and revenues in the …

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Adaptation to Environmental Change : Agriculture and the Unexpected Incidence of the Acid Rain Program

Sanders, Nicholas J.; Barreca, Alan I. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The Acid Rain Program (ARP) cut sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions from power plants in the United States, with considerable benefits. We show this also reduced ambient sulfate levels, which lowered agriculture productivity through decreased soil sulfur. Using plant-level SO2 emissions and an...

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Weather, Climate, and Technology Adoption : An Application to Drought-Tolerant Corn in the United States

McFadden, Jonathan R.; Smith, David; Wallander, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Crop farmers have few short-run options for reducing downside production risk from changes in drought frequency and intensity due to ongoing climate change. However, one recently available option is drought-tolerant (DT) varieties. We determine how recent drought exposure, drought risk, and...

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Valuing the Time of the Self-Employed

Agness, Daniel; Baseler, Travis; Chassang, Sylvain; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

People's value for their own time is a key input in evaluating public policies: evaluations should account for time taken away from work or leisure as a result of policy. Using rich choice data collected from farming households in western Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive...

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Energy, Groundwater, and Crop Choice

Burlig, Fiona; Preonas, Louis; Woerman, Matt - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Groundwater is a key resource for agricultural production globally. Increasingly rapid aquifer drawdowns--as well as the policies intended to increase their sustainability--increase costs to agricultural producers, with unknown consequences. This paper provides the first large-scale empirical...

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Unlocking the Benefits of Credit through Saving

Mukherjee, Sanghamitra W.; Bergquist, Lauren Falcao; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Access to microcredit has been shown to generate only modest average benefits for recipient households. We study whether other financial market frictions--in particular, lack of access to a safe place to save--might limit credit's benefits. Working with Kenyan farmers, we cross-randomize access...

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Improving Last-Mile Service Delivery using Phone-Based Monitoring

Muralidharan, Karthik - 2018

Improving "last-mile" public-service delivery is a recurring challenge in developing countries. Could the widespread adoption of mobile phones provide a scalable, cost-effective means for improvement? We use a large-scale experiment to evaluate the impact of phone-based monitoring on a program...

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Farm Product Prices, Redistribution, and the Early U.S. Great Depression

Hausman, Joshua K. - 2020

We argue that falling farm product prices, incomes, and spending may explain 10-30 percent of the 1930 U.S. output decline. Crop prices collapsed, reducing farmers' incomes. And across U.S. states and Ohio counties, auto sales fell most in crop-growing areas. The large spending response may be...

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Migration, Specialization, and Trade : Evidence from Brazil's March to the West

Pellegrina, Heitor S.; Sotelo, Sebastian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Exploiting a large migration of farmers to the West of Brazil between 1950 and 2010, we study how migration shapes aggregate and regional comparative advantage. We document that farmers emigrating from regions with high employment in an activity are more likely to work in that activity and have...

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