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We measure if and to what extent livestock sales during food shortages affect the wealth value of livestock. For this purpose we exploit monthly market prices of meat and staple foods in Malawi, for up to 72 locations (towns, villages and markets), for the period from January 1991 to December...
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This paper offers an overview of factors that are decisive forproductivity increase in the agricultural sector (bothfarming and agro-food). An attempt is made to explain differences intotal factor productivity in agriculture indifferent countries by means of meta-analysis, in particular, byusing...
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Higher educated individuals are healthier and live longer than their lower educated peers. One reason is that lower educated individuals engage more in unhealthy behaviours including consumption of a poor diet, but it is not clear why they do so. In this paper we develop an economic theory of...
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We use newly collected individual-level hunger recall information from the China Family Panel Survey to estimate the causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that can deal with heterogeneous samples. We find a...
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susceptible to likelihood insensitivity. We also find a similar pattern in a representative population sample where cloudy weather … help explain re al-world phenomena such as financial markets that react to regular fluctuations in weather conditions. …
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In the literature the effects of weather on electricity sales are well-documented. However, studies that have … investigated the impact of weather on electricity prices are still scarce (e.g. Knittel and Roberts, 2005), partly because the … wholesale power markets have only recently been deregulated. We introduce the weather factor into well-known forecasting models …
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This paper investigates the welfare effect of adverse weather through changes in the speed of individuals’ car … commuting trips in the entire Netherlands. Weather measurements are local and time specific (hourly basis). As most commuters … travel twice a day between home and work, we are able to estimate the effect of adverse weather employing panel data …
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