A model is developed for peasant households in land abundant areas who choose between two technologies for land … fully determines aggregate production and that wealth redistribution is equity and efficiency enhancing.Empirical evidence … redistribution. …

across markets, by exploiting the quasi experimental design of the nearly total collapse of domestic trade by rail in January … a 11% to 18% reduction in price dispersion across markets. Geographical reach of trade varies by crop, most likely …

This paper presents a trade model with capital and labor as factors of production. The main contribution of this paper …

Transaction costs are a major reason why international trade flows are much smaller than traditional trade theory would … suggest. Trust between trading partners lowers transaction costs and may therefore enhance trade. The empirical analysis of … this paper shows that more trust leads to more trade so that part of the mystery of missing trade can be attributed to the …

income redistribution. Unlike most of the literature this paper investigates not only whether but also how much risk pooling … households. However, the contributions of transfers to risk pooling and income redistribution are economically very limited. …

over the years, (3) the availability anduse of the necessary factors of production, such as land, labour, and variable …

Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experiments on preferences for redistribution conducted in the U.S. and several European countries to disentangle these potential …