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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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Productivity response to a contract change

Jayaraman, Rajshri; Ray, Debraj; Véricout, Francis de - 2014

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract, implemented at the end of a three-year cycle in which contracts are generally revised, was (a) the joint outcome of negotiations between twenty unions and plantations, (b)...

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Lifting the veil : the face of TFP in an Indian rail mill

Das, Sanghamitra; Krishna, Kala; Lychagin, Sergey; … - 2011

We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations at the Bhilai Rail and Structural Mill (RSM) in India to …

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Disrupting education? : experimental evidence on technology-aided instruction in India

Muralidharan, Karthik; Singh, Abhijeet; Ganimian, … - 2017

outcomes in middle school grades in urban India, using a lottery that provided students with a voucher to cover program costs …

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Longevity shocks with age-dependent productivity growth

Heijdra, Ben J.; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - 2015

The aim of this paper is to study the long-run effects of a longevity increase on individual decisions about education and retirement, taking macroeconomic repercussions through endogenous factor prices and the pension system into account. We build a model of a closed economy inhabited by...

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Health dynamics shape life-cycle incomes

Kotschy, Rainer - 2019

This paper empirically investigates the long-run effects of major health improvements on income growth in the United States. To isolate exogenous changes in health, the econometric model uses quasi-experimental variation in cardiovascular disease mortality across states over time. The results...

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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

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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...

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Geography vs. institutions at the village level

Grimm, Michael (contributor); Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2008

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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...

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