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Rainfall Forecasts, Weather and Wages over the Agricultural Production Cycle

Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We look at the effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages over the course of the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can...

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Agriculture, Roads, and Economic Development in Uganda

Rogerson, Richard; Gollin, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

a static general equilibrium model to explore the relationships between high transportation costs, low productivity, and …-subsistence agriculture is highly sensitive both to agricultural productivity levels and to transportation costs. The model also suggests … positive complementarities between improvements in agricultural productivity and transportation. …

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The Sahel's Silent Maize Revolution: Analyzing Maize Productivity in Mali at the Farm-level

Foltz, Jeremy D.; Aldana, Ursula T.; Laris, Paul - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

increased fertilizer use has driven much of the productivity growth rather than the adoption of improvements in seeds and … revolution and point to the importance of taking into account farmer heterogeneity in estimating productivity and returns to …

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Long-Term Barriers to Economic Development

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

What obstacles prevent the most productive technologies from spreading to less developed economies from the world's technological frontier? In this paper, we seek to shed light on this question by quantifying the geographic and human barriers to the transmission of technologies. We argue that...

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How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development?

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

on productivity, or have operated indirectly as barriers to the diffusion of productivity-enhancing innovations across …

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Germs, Social Networks and Growth

Fogli, Alessandra; Veldkamp, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Does the pattern of social connections between individuals matter for macroeconomic outcomes? If so, how does this effect operate and how big is it? Using network analysis tools, we explore how different social structures affect technology diffusion and thereby a country's rate of technological...

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Which Parts of Globalization Matter for Catch-up Growth?

Romer, Paul Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Economists devote too much attention to international flows of goods and services and not enough to international flows of ideas. Traditional trade flows are an imperfect substitute for flows of the underlying ideas. The simplest textbook trade model shows that a welfare-enhancing move toward...

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The World Distribution of Productivity: Country TFP Choice in a Nelson-Phelps Economy

Krusell, Per; Damsgaard, Erika Färnstrand - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper builds a theory of the distribution of TFP across countries. The theory is based on the hypothesis that TFP improvements in a given country follow a Nelson-Phelps specification: they derive from past investments in the country itself and, through a spillover term, from past...

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Farms, Families, and Markets: New Evidence on Agricultural Labor Markets

Thomas, Duncan; LaFave, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

The farm household model has played a central role in improving the understanding of small-scale agricultural households and non-farm enterprises. Under the assumptions that all current and future markets exist and that farmers treat all prices as given, the model simplifies households’...

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Risk, Insurance and Wages in General Equilibrium

Rosenzweig, Mark; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We estimate the general-equilibrium labor market effects of a large-scale randomized intervention in which we designed and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both cultivators and to agricultural wage laborers allows us to...

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