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While much research on China has focused on rural to urban migration and transitions of rural households away from agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to account for a large share of employment. We study the...
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This paper offers a new theoretical approach to urban squatting, reflecting the view that squatters and formal residents compete for land within a city. The key implication of this view is that squatters squeeze" the formal market, raising the price paid by formal residents. The squatter...
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economics with the highest dynamics (largest rates of change in paper counts). We found that the field with the largest paper …
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matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …
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journal? We show empirically that the answer is yes, using 3167 articles published in five of the top journals in economics …
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We compare Covid-related working papers in economics to non-Covid-related working papers in four dimensions. Based on …
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investment in an international infrastructure capital, the stock of which accumulates over time. Depending on the trade costs and … consideration, the governments carry out a dynamic game of public investment. We show that the dynamic equilibrium of the policy …
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What determines the development of rural financial markets? Starting from a simple theoretical framework, we derive the factors shaping the market entry of rural microfinance institutions across time and space. We provide empirical evidence for these determinants using the expansion of credit...
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This study examines the effect of smallholder farmers' access to a formal climate risk transfer mechanism on their risk …. Results from the ESP model show that farmers who purchased WICI are less likely to be risk-averse compared with non …-purchaser farmers. Similarly, non-purchasers would have attained a significant reduction in their risk-aversion if they had taken up the …
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allocations under various frictions, including risk and private information. In addition, implementation relies on the issue and … use insights from dynamic mechanism design in monetary economics to derive properties of dynamic emissions trading …
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