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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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The United States produces 41% of the world's corn and 38% of the world's soybeans, so any impact on US crop yields will have implications for world food supply. We pair a panel of county-level crop yields in the US with a fine-scale weather data set that incorporates the whole distribution of...
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This paper reviews the recent problems of the opening of Japan's rice market and evaluates the Japanese government …'s rice policy from both an economic and political viewpoint. The Japanese government made strenuous resistance to the opening … of Japan's rice market during the negotiations on agricultural trade at the GATT Uruguay Round. Eventually Japan's rice …
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slave price series indicates that the price of rice was the major determinant of the demand for slaves and in turn largely … yields in rice production over the eighteenth century and the sources of wealth accumulation in South Carolina …
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, or the price of rice. Low Country slave prices were well above those in the West Indies and Maryland prior to the 1740s …
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the optimum subsidy scheme that can insure a given take-up for a new weather insurance for rice producers. We build a …
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In an experiment providing fertilizer grants to women rice farmers in Mali, we found that women who received fertilizer …
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We find evidence that exposure to universal free school meals through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) had a meaningful impact on grocery spending for households with children, with monthly food purchases declining by about $11, or 5 percent. For households in zip codes with higher...
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Work requirements are common in U.S. safety net programs. Evidence remains limited, however, on the extent to which work requirements increase economic self-sufficiency or screen out vulnerable individuals. Using linked administrative data on food stamps (SNAP) and earnings with a regression...
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The COVID-19 pandemic brought the dual crises of disease and the containment policies designed to mitigate it. Yet, there is little evidence on the impacts of these policies on women, who are likely to be especially vulnerable, in lower-income countries. We conduct a large phone survey and...
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