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Productivity Response to a Contract Change
Ray, Debraj; Jayaraman, Rajshri; Vericourt, Francis de - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract, implemented at the end of a three-year cycle in which contracts are generally revised, was (a) the joint outcome of negotiations between twenty unions and plantations, (b)...
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Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Experimental Evidence in Farming
Mullainathan, Sendhil; Hanna, Rema; Schwartzstein, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Existing learning models attribute failures to learn to a lack of data. We model a different barrier. Given the large number of dimensions one could focus on when using a technology, people may fail to learn because they failed to notice important features of the data they possess. We conduct a...
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Property Rights, Land Conflict and Tenancy in Brazil
Alston, Lee J.; Mueller, Bernardo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Tenancy has been a means for labor to advance their socio-economic condition in agriculture yet in Brazil and Latin … rights in Brazil on the reluctance of landowners to rent because of a fear of expropriation arising from land reform. Since … 1964, the Land Statute in Brazil has targeted rental lands for redistribution. The expropriation of farms, resulting from …
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Biological Innovation and Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Cotton Economy
Olmstead, Alan L.; Rhode, Paul W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
The Cliometrics literature on slave efficiency has generally focused on static questions. We take a decidedly more dynamic approach. Drawing on the records of 142 plantations with 509 crops years, we show that the average daily cotton picking rate increased about four-fold between 1801 and 1862....
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Particulate Pollution and the Productivity of Pear Packers
Graff Zivin, Joshua; Chang, Tom; Gross, Tal; Neidell, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the effect of outdoor air pollution on the productivity of indoor workers at a pear-packing factory. We focus on fine particulate matter (PM2.5), a harmful pollutant that easily penetrates indoor settings. We find that an increase in PM2.5 outdoors leads to a statistically and...
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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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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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Finishing Degrees and Finding Jobs: U.S. Higher Education and the Flow of Foreign IT Workers
Bound, John; Demirci, Murat; Khanna, Gaurav; Turner, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
the U.S. Many workers from abroad, including countries like India and China where wages in IT fields lag those in the U …
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Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts: A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants
Ambler, Kate; Aycinena, Diego; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the impacts on remittances of offering migrants temporary discounts on remittance transaction fees. We randomly assigned migrants from El Salvador and Guatemala 10-week remittance transaction fee discounts, and assess impacts using administrative transaction data and a post-experiment...
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Attracting Talent: Location Choices of Foreign-Born PhDs in the US
Grogger, Jeffrey T.; Hanson, Gordon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We use data from the NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates to examine the post-degree location choices of foreign-born students receiving PhDs from US universities in science and engineering. Over the period 1960 to 2008, 77% of foreign-born S&E PhDs state that they plan to stay in the United States....
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