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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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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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Contract Farming and Rural Transformation : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Benin
Arouna, Aminou - 2019
agriculture. Yet, there is a lack of consensus on its ability to spur structural transformation in rural economies. We present …
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Sectoral trends and cycles in Germany
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Westermann, Frank - 2001
We examine the comovements between the output indexes of three German sectors (manufacturing, mining, and agriculture …
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Why is measured productivity so low in agriculture?
Herrendorf, Berthold; Schoellman, Todd - 2015
In poor countries, labor productivity in agriculture is considerably lower than in the rest of the economy. We assess … between the marginal value products of agriculture and non-agriculture are considerably smaller when measured through wages … than through labor productivities. Third, labor productivity in agriculture is severely mis-measured in the US. …
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External Validity in a Stochastic World
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2016
in agriculture, small and medium enterprises and human capital differ significantly from year to year. We also show how …
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The Biophysical and Economic Geographies of Global Climate Impacts on Agriculture
Baldos, Uris - 2018
agriculture. It does so by bridging the extensive literature on climate impacts on yields and physical productivity in global crop …
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Gravity and Comparative Advantage : Estimation of Trade Elasticities for the Agricultural Sector
Heerman, Kari - 2018
In this paper, a structural gravity model is presented which features intra-sector heterogeneity in agricultural productivity systematically linked to land and climate characteristics. The “systematic heterogeneity” (SH) gravity model predicts that countries with similar land and climate...
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Business Cycle During Structural Change : Arthur Lewis' Theory from a Neoclassical Perspective
Storesletten, Kjetil - 2019
agriculture declines while labor productivity increases in agriculture more than in other sectors. We construct a unified theory … simultaneous decline and modernization of agriculture. As capital accumulates, agriculture becomes increasingly capital intensive … as modern agriculture crowds out traditional agriculture. Structural change accelerates in booms and slows down in …
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