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The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization : Evidence from an Historical Experiment
Nunn, Nathan - 2009
We exploit regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our results show that the introduction of the...
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Bundling Stress Tolerant Seeds and Insurance for More Resilient and Productive Small-scale Agriculture
Boucher, Stephen; Carter, Michael R.; Flatnes, Jon Einar; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Risk often inhibits on-farm investment by smallholder farmers. Recent evidence indicates that index insurance and stress tolerant seeds can separately and partially offset this risk effect. In this study, we explore whether the complementarities between these two risk management technologies can...
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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
This paper explores the idea that a competitive seed system may systematically underserve farmers in small, agro … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481184
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EMU : Ready, or Not?
Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999
transition: the possibility of nationally asymmetric real shocks. I review that topic in the context of Ireland's recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471509
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School Bus Emissions, Student Health, and Academic Performance
Austin, Wes - 2019
Diesel emissions from school buses expose children to high levels of air pollution; retrofitting bus engines can substantially reduce this exposure. Using variation from 2,656 retrofits across Georgia, we estimate effects of emissions reductions on district-level health and academic achievement....
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The Economic Assimilation of Irish Famine Migrants to the United States
Collins, William J. - 2018
The repeated failure of Ireland's potato crop in the late 1840s led to a major famine and a surge in migration to the … descriptive analysis of mobility for the famine-era Irish sons indicates that more Catholic surnames and birth in Ireland were …
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Research Funding and Collaboration
Davies, Benjamin - 2020
We analyse whether research funding contests promote co-authorship. Our analysis combines Scopus publication records with data on applications to the Marsden Fund, the premiere source of funding for basic research in New Zealand. On average, and after controlling for observable and unobservable...
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Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes
Currie, Janet - 2008
Previous research has shown a strong connection between birth weight and future child outcomes. But this research has not asked how insults to child health after birth affect long-term outcomes, whether health at birth matters primarily because it predicts future health or through some other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464165
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The Life Cycle of Scholars and Papers in Economics -- the "Citation Death Tax"
Aizenman, Joshua - 2008
The information content of academic citations is subject to debate. This paper views premature death as a tragic "natural experiment," outlining a methodology identifying the "citation death tax" -- the impact of death of productive economists on the patterns of their citations. We rely on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464756
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Childhood Disadvantage and Obesity : Is Nurture Trumping Nature?
Anderson, Patricia M. - 2007
Obesity has been one of the fastest growing health concerns among children, particularly among disadvantaged children. For children overall, obesity rates have tripled from 5% in the early 1970s to about 15% by the early 2000s. For disadvantaged children, obesity rates are closer to 20%. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465167