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Smallholders, market failures, and agricultural production: evidence from India

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020

Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders reallocate labor across activities less in response to...

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Air pollution and agricultural productivity in a developing country

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2023

I document negative externalities of air pollution in the Indian agricultural sector. Using variation in pollution induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity, with large changes in productivity being common. The...

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Got water? : social divisions and access to public goods in rural India

Balasubramaniam, Divya; Chatterjee, Santanu; Mustard, … - 2011

We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social … divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu …

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Legal status and deprivation in India's urban slums : an analysis of two decades of national sample survey data

Nolan, Laura B.; Bloom, David E.; Subbaraman, Ramnath - 2017

In India, 52-98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by …

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Still waters run deep : groundwater contamination and education outcomes in India

Aggarwal, Khushboo; Barua, Rashmi; Vidal-Fernandez, Marian - 2024

We investigate the impact of groundwater contamination on educational outcomes in India. Our study leverages variations …-contaminated regions in India, we find that prolonged exposure to unsafe groundwater is associated with increased school absenteeism, grade …

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The effects of climate change in the poorest countries : evidence from the permanent shrinking of Lake Chad

Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman D.; … - 2023

Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013), have been studied relatively less, especially in...

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Household choices of child labor and schooling : a simple model with application to Brazil

Kruger, Diana (contributor); … - 2007

This paper develops and estimates a simple structural model of household decisions regarding child labor and schooling. We argue that part of the conflicting results from the previous literature related to the effect of improvements in economic conditions on child labor derives from the...

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Hurricane watch : battening down the effects of the storm on local crop production

Spencer, Nekeisha; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2015

This study utilizes a panel fixed effects model to explore the economic impact of hurricanes on local crop production in Jamaica using quarterly 1999-2008 micro level data. We find, in general, that hurricanes will have a negative impact on production but not for crops grown below ground. The...

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The agricultural origins of time preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2014

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...

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Climate change, agricultural production and civil conflict : evidence from the Philippines

Crost, Benjamin; Duquennois, Claire; Felter, Joseph; … - 2015

Climate change is predicted to affect global rainfall patterns, but there is mixed evidence with regard to the effect of rainfall on civil conflict. Even among researchers who argue that rainfall reduces civil conflict, there is disagreement as to the underlying mechanism. Using data from the...

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