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Nineteenth century biological conditions on the high central plains
Carson, Scott A. - 2012
Little work has been done on the biological conditions for the US Central Plains. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, black and white statures in Nebraska increased with economic development, indicating that biological conditions improved as Nebraska's output market and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535112
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Geography vs. institutions at the village level
Grimm, Michael (contributor); Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003662858
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Trade and development in a labor surplus economy
Barbier, Edward (contributor); Rauscher, Michael (contributor) - 2005
This paper looks at a model in which two countries trade agricultural and manufactured commodities. The manufactured-goods sector produces with increasing returns to scale under conditions of monopolistic competition. It is shown that an increase in land endowment (or an increase in agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003109954
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Land trade and development : a market design approach
Bryan, Gharad; De Quidt, Jonathan; Wilkening, Tom; … - 2017
Small farms and fragmented plots are hallmarks of agriculture in less-developed countries, and there is evidence of high returns to land consolidation and reallocation. Complementarities, holdout and asymmetric information mean that private trade will be slow to reallocate land, and imply that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672473
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Measuring the integration of staple food markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : heterogeneous infrastructure and cross border trade in the East African community
Ihle, Rico; Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan von; Zorya, Sergiy I. - 2011
This analysis employs cointegration methods and semiparametric regression in order to assess the integration of maize markets and the factors determining national and cross-national transmission of price signals in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use a rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices...
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Net neutrality and internet fragmentation : the role of online advertising
D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2015 - This version: July 2015
We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market, where Content Providers (CPs) and consumers interact through Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and CPs sell consumers' attention to advertisers. Under Net Neutrality, a...
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Planning ahead for better neighborhoods : long run evidence from Tanzania
Michaels, Guy; Nigmatulina, Dzhamilya; Rauch, Ferdinand; … - 2017
What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build their own homes? We study "Sites and Services" projects implemented in seven Tanzanian cities during the 1970s and 1980s, half of which provided infrastructure in previously...
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Private capital, public goods : forest plantations' investment in local infrastructure and social services in rural Tanzania
Degnet, Mohammed B.; Van der Werf, Edwin; Ingram, Verina; … - 2017
and social services in rural Tanzania. We take a comparative approach involving households living in villages adjacent to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735970
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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for …
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Gender of siblings and choice of college major
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2013
In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …
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