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Does Agriculture Generate Local Economic Spillovers? Short-Run and Long-Run Evidence from the Ogallala Aquifer

Hornbeck, Richard - 2012

Agricultural development may support broader economic development, though agricultural expansion may also crowd-out local non-agricultural activity. On the United States Plains, areas over the Ogallala aquifer experienced windfall agricultural gains when post-WWII technologies increased farmers'...

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Migration and climate change in rural Africa

Cattaneo, Cristina; Massetti, Emanuele - 2015

We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it will also be an adaptation to future climate change....

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Does climate change make foodgrain yields more unpredictable : evidence from India

Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020

How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact … of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India’s major food crop) and two key millet crops … (sorghum and pearl millet), using an all India district level panel dataset from 1966-2011. A stochastic production function is …

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Achieving sustainable energy security : 2030 outlook for ASEAN, People Republic of China and India

Fan, Ying; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2015

The rapid growth of ASEAN economies, the People's Republic of China and India (called ACI henceforth) - major drivers …

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Global climate change and the resurgence of tropical disease : an economic approach

Gollin, Douglas; Zimmermann, Christian - 2010

We study the impact of global climate change on the prevalence of tropical diseases using a heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model. In our framework, households can take actions (e.g., purchasing bednets or other goods) that provide partial protection from disease. However, these...

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Evaluating nationwide health interventions when standard before-after doesn't work : Malawi's ITN distribution program

Deuchert, Eva; Wunsch, Conny - 2010

Nationwide health interventions are difficult to evaluate as contemporaneous control groups do not exist and before-after approaches are usually infeasible. We propose an alternative semi-parametric estimator that is based on the assumption that the intervention has no direct effect on the...

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The Growth Costs of Malaria

McCarthy, F. Desmond; Wolf, Holger C.; Wu, Yi - 2021

Malaria ranks among the foremost health issues facing tropical countries. In this paper, we explore the determinants of cross-country differences in malaria morbidity, and examine the linkage between malaria and economic growth. Using a classification rule analysis, we confirm the dominant role...

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