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The Impact of Rainfall on Rice Output in Indonesia

Levine, David I. - 2014

rainfall shocks on rice output at the district level. Our analysis makes use of local meteorological data on rainfall in … combination with government administrative data on district-level rice output in the 1990s. We find that deviations from mean … local rainfall are positively associated with district-level rice output. 10% higher rainfall leads metric tons of rice …

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Identifying Supply and Demand Elasticities of Agricultural Commodities : Implications for the US Ethanol Mandate

Roberts, Michael J. - 2010

US ethanol mandate requires that about 5 percent of world caloric production from corn, wheat, rice, and soybeans be used …

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Crop Disease and Agricultural Productivity

Carroll, Christine L. - 2017

Crop diseases and how they are managed can have a large impact on agricultural productivity. This paper discusses the effects on agricultural productivity of Verticillium dahliae, a soil borne fungus that is introduced to the soil via infested spinach seeds and that causes subsequent lettuce...

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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference

Galor, Oded - 2014

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...

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Institutions and Global Crop Yields

Wuepper, David; Wang, Haoyu; Schlenker, Wolfram; Jain, Meha - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate annual discontinuities in remotely-sensed crop yields at all international land borders and link them to changes in the economic freedom index by the Fraser Institute, a country-level measure of institutional quality. Each point of the ten-point index increases the discontinuity by...

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A Sticky-Price View of Hoarding

Hansman, Christopher - 2020

promotion or for the purpose of retail arbitrage. Using US supermarket scanner data covering the 2008 Global Rice Crisis, an … episode driven by an observable cost shock due an Indian ban on raw rice exports, we find that sticky prices account for a …

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Contracting out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery : Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2015

which a procurement process was introduced that allowed citizens to bid to take over the implementation of a subsidized rice … reported the quality of the rice improved. Bidding committees may have avoided quality problems by choosing bidders who had …

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Center Pivot Irrigation Systems as a Form of Drought Risk Mitigation in Humid Regions

Cooley, Daniel J.; Smith, Steven M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

results provide insights into an emerging trend of irrigation in humid regions, raising potential policy considerations for …

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The Consumption Effects of the Disposition to Sell Winners and Hold Losers

Loos, Benjamin - 2020

We use individual-level data on all security trades, holdings, spending, and income from an online retail bank. We study the effects of an exogenous change in the displayed purchase prices of the mutual funds in individuals' portfolios. We find that individuals are more likely to sell what we...

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Incentivizing Learning-By-Doing : The Role of Compensation Schemes

Zivin, Joshua S. Graff - 2019

the job. This underscores the importance of dynamic considerations in principal-agent models …

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