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, explaining 31% of productivity dispersion and over half of the agricultural productivity gap. The sophistication of widely used …
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The boll weevil spread across the Southern United States from 1892 to 1922 having a devastating impact on cotton cultivation. The resulting shift away from this child labor-intensive crop lowered the opportunity cost of attending school, and thus the pest increased school enrollment and...
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agriculture today. We explain this apparent puzzle in a model in which two technological shocks occur, one increasing agricultural … locations. In countries that developed early, structural transformation due to rising agricultural productivity began at a time … when transport costs were still relatively high, so urban agglomerations were localized in agricultural regions. When …
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This study explores the interaction between trade and geography in shaping the Islamic economic doctrine. We build a model where an unequal distribution of land quality in presence of trade opportunities conferred differential gains from trade across regions, fostering predatory behavior by...
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This paper tests financial accelerator models. Using a novel dataset on agricultural production, we examine how …
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Why do developing countries fail to specialize in products in which they appear to have a comparative advantage? We … propose a model of agricultural trade with intermediation that explains how hold-up resulting from poor contracting …
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agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of long-term orientation across societies. In particular … return to agricultural investment, triggered selection and learning processes that had a persistent positive effect on the …
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We estimate the impact of weather variation on agricultural output in Indonesia by examining the impact of local …
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