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Coerced labor in the cotton sector : how global commodity prices (don't) transmit to the poor

Danzer, Alexander M.; Grundke, Robert - 2016

's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …

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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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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

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Incentivizing learning-by-doing : the role of compensation schemes

Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Kahn, Lisa B.; Neidell, Matthew - 2019

In this paper, we examine the impact of pay-for-performance incentives on learning-by-doing. We exploit personnel data on fruit pickers paid under two distinct compensation contracts: a standard piece rate plan and a piece rate plan with an extra one-time bonus tied to output. Under the bonus...

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Robust dynamic space-time panel data models using ε-contamination : an application to crop yields and climate change

Baltagi, Badi H.; Bresson, Georges; Chaturvedi, Anoop; … - 2022

This paper extends the Baltagi et al. (2018, 2021) static and dynamic ε-contamination papers to dynamic space-time models. We investigate the robustness of Bayesian panel data models to possible misspecification of the prior distribution. The proposed robust Bayesian approach departs from the...

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Migration, risk and the intra-household allocation of labor in El Salvador

Halliday, Timothy J. (contributor) - 2008

We use panel data from El Salvador and investigate the intra-household allocation of labor as a risk-coping strategy. Adverse agricultural productivity shocks both increased male migration to the US and male agricultural labor supply. This is not a contradiction if there were non-monotonic...

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The elite and the marginalised : an analysis of public spending on mass education in the Indian States

Pal, Sarmistha (contributor); Ghosh, Sugata (contributor) - 2008

-development spending ; India …

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Caste based discrimination : evidence and policy

Siddique, Zahra (contributor) - 2008

Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …

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Union membership effect on wage premiums : evidence from organized manufacturing industries in India

Bhandari, Amit Kumar (contributor) - 2008

organised manufacturing industries in India. The study uses a recent survey data on labour market in the organised manufacturing … benefits in the organized manufacturing industries in India. -- Trade unions ; wage differentials ; manufacturing …

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