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analysis indicates that, without subsidies paid directly to farmers, output of some emission-intensive activities and …
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This paper argues that a price wedge treatment of agricultural supports can seriously misrepresent their welfare and quantity effects. We make our point by focusing on pre-1985 US wheat programs, but features of programs in many other countries lead to comparable problems with the ad valorem...
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intervention to one at scale, even for the same sample of farmers, and quantify the underlying mechanisms. We further document new …
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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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consequences. This paper provides the first large-scale empirical estimates of how farmers respond to changes in groundwater costs … variation in the price of electricity, a key input into groundwater extraction, we find that farmers are very price responsive … switching and fallowing are the main channel through which farmers respond to increases in groundwater costs. Using a static …
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. Working with Kenyan farmers, we cross-randomize access to a simple savings product with a harvest-time loan. Among farmers …
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the impact of phone-based monitoring on a program that transferred nearly a billion dollars to 5.7 million Indian farmers … beneficiaries. This led to a 7.6% reduction in the number of farmers who did not receive their transfers. The program was highly …
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This paper explores the idea that a competitive seed system may systematically underserve farmers in small, agro …-ecological niches, leaving potential yield gains on the table and farmers in these areas less productive and poorer than they need be … three-year randomized controlled trial reveals that the impacts of these seed varieties on farmer yields and revenues in the …
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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 explained by farmers' indebtedness. Reasonable assumptions about the … marginal propensity to spend of farmers relative to nonfarmers and the pass-through of farm prices to retail prices imply that …
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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 …
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