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Can peers improve agricultural productivity?
Songsermsawas, Tisorn; Baylis, Kathy; Chhatre, Ashwini; … - 2014
Productivity varies greatly among farmers and the source of that variation is not fully understood. Using a unique …
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Impacts of droughts and floods on agricultural productivity in New Zealand as measured from space
Blanc, Elodie; Noy, Ilan - 2022
This study estimates the impact of excess precipitation (or the absence of rainfall) on productivity of agricultural … productivity. Overall, we find statistically significant declines in agricultural productivity that is associated with both floods …
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Real wage chronologies
Christofidēs, Loizos N. (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003599281
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Tariffs, trade and productivity : a quantitative evaluation of heterogeneous firm models
Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - 2013
We examine the quantitative predictions of heterogeneous firm models à la Melitz (2003) in the context of the Canada … - US Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) of 1989. We compute predicted increases in trade flows and measured productivity across … fundamental problem which most models we analyse face: predicted increases in measured productivity are too low by an order of …
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What do we know about recent exchange rate models? : in-sample fit and out-of-sample performance evaluated
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie David; Pascual, Antonio … - 2003
Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...
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Climate change, rice crops and violence : evidence from Indonesia
Caruso, Raul; Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2014
This paper adopts an instrumental variable approach to uncover the impact of variations in minimum temperature on emergence and severity of actual violence through the effect on food availability, captured by rice crops per capita. The link between increase in minimum temperature and rice crops...
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The agricultural origins of time preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2015
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...
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Optimal pest control in agriculture
Christiaans, Thomas (contributor);  … - 2005
Based on economic methodology we model an ecosystem with two species in predator-prey relationship: mice feed on grain and grain feeds on a resource. With optimizing behaviour of individual organisms a short-run ecosystem equilibrium is defined and characterized that depends on the farmer’s...
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Democratic tipping points
Ciccone, Antonio - 2018
I examine whether transitory events can tip the scales against authoritarian regimes and lead to persistent democratization. I think of situations where this is a possibility as democratic tipping points. The transitory events I focus on are rainfall shocks in the most agricultural countries in...
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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...
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