Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 951
Cover Image
On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461559
Cover Image
Willingness to Pay for Low Water Footprint Food Choices During Drought
Krovetz, Hannah - 2017
In the context of recent California drought years, we investigate empirically whether consumers are willing to pay for more efficient water usage in the production of four California agricultural products. We implement an internet survey choice experiment for avocados, almonds, lettuce, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455186
Cover Image
Water Availability as a Constraint on China's Future Growth
Medianu, Dana - 2012
Recent writings on China's water situation often portray China's water problems as severe and suggest that water availability could threaten the sustainability of China's future growth. However, China's high growth of the last 20 years or more has been obtained with relatively little increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460535
Cover Image
A National Estimate of Irrigation Canal Lining and Piping Water Conservation
Hrozencik, R. Aaron; Potter, Nicholas A.; Wallander, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
efforts have focused on farm-level irrigation efficiency. However, since over one-third of water applied for agricultural … irrigation in the U.S. comes from off-farm supplies, improvements in delivery and conveyance efficiency also have the potential … to significantly reduce water losses. This study utilizes survey data from irrigation water delivery organizations in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334342
Cover Image
Do Property Rights Alleviate the Problem of the Commons? Evidence from California Groundwater Rights
Ayres, Andrew B. - 2019
Property rights are widely prescribed for addressing overextraction of common pool resources, yet causal evidence of their effectiveness remains elusive. We develop a model of dynamic groundwater extraction to demonstrate how a spatial regression discontinuity design exploiting a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480212
Cover Image
Cover Crops, Drought, Yield and Risk : an Analysis of U.S. Soybean Production
Dong, Fengxia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Besides a variety of production and environmental benefits, cover cropping has been advocated as a mean to increase resilience to drought. We explored factors influencing farmer's adoption of cover crops and examined the effects of cover crops on soybean yield and its risk using USDA's 2018 ARMS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334341
Cover Image
Women's Well-Being During a Pandemic and its Containment
Bau, Natalie; Khanna, Gaurav; Low, Corinne; Shah, Manisha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-income countries. We conduct a large phone survey and leverage India's geographically-varying containment policies to estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616569
Cover Image
Long-term Effects of the Targeting the Ultra Poor Program
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2020
This paper studies the long-run effects of a "big-push" program providing a large asset transfer to the poorest Indian households. In a randomized controlled trial that follows these households over 10 years, we find positive effects on consumption (1 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482293
Cover Image
International Evidence of Strengthening Taxes and Spending For Sustainable Development
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Hien Nguyen; Park, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We trace the linkages between the episodes of fiscal expansion and consolidation in 72 advanced and emerging and developing economies. The findings suggest that fiscal expansions are positively associated with economic growth, which in turn is positively linked with better sustainable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794621
Cover Image
The Baker Hypothesis
Chari, Anusha - 2020
In 1985, James A. Baker III's "Program for Sustained Growth" proposed a set of economic policy reforms including, inflation stabilization, trade liberalization, greater openness to foreign investment, and privatization, that he believed would lead to faster growth in countries then known as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481256