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Trade liberalization, economic activity, and political violence in the Global South : evidence from PTAs

Amodio, Francesco; Baccini, Leonardo; Chiovelli, Giorgio; … - 2023

time combined with variation within countries in their suitability to produce liberalized crops to find that economic … suitable to produce less labor-intensive crops as well as crops that are consumed locally. Our estimates imply that economic …

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Export and labor market outcomes : a supply chain perspective : evidence from Vietnam

Kokas, Deeksha; López Acevedo, Gladys; Vu, Ha - 2023

? To analyze this question, we study the case of Vietnam. Vietnam exported a total of $356B, making it the number 18 … exporter in the world in 2021. Recent studies show provinces in Vietnam with greater exposure to tariff reductions observe … exports propagated through domestic production linkages in Vietnam between 2010 and 2019. We find that direct exposure to …

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Can crop purchase programs reduce poverty and improve welfare in rural communities? : evidence from the food reserve agency in Zambia

Fung, Winnie; Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda; Mason, Nicole - 2015

The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects of these programs. This article considers one such...

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Illegal migration and consumption behavior of immigrant households

Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Speciale, Biagio - 2016

We analyze the effect of immigrants' legal status on their consumption behavior using unique survey data that samples both documented and undocumented immigrants. To address the problem of sorting into legal status, we propose two alternative identification strategies as exogenous source of...

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Perspectives on the early retirement decisions of farming couples

Väre, Minna (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

In the past decade, the European agricultural sector has undergone rapid structural change. Part of that change is manifested in extended early retirement plans. As pensions play a crucial role in determining the characteristics the change, it is important to establish the factors determining...

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Self-employment in rural China: its development, characteristics, and relation to income

Gustafsson, Björn; Zhang, Yudan - 2021

The changes in the employment structure in rural China are studied with a focus on off farm self-employment. Data from the China Household Income Project surveys covering the same 14 provinces from 1988 to 2018 are used. We find that the proportion of adults in rural China with self-employment...

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The agricultural productivity gap and self-employment bias in the labor income share

Paul, Saumik; Thomas, Liam - 2020

We propose a theory-based adjustment to the labor income share to correct for the self-employment bias. Through a two-sector neoclassical framework with agriculture and non-agriculture, we derive the productivity-adjusted aggregate labor income share in terms of the agricultural productivity...

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The agricultural origins of time preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2014

, exploiting a natural experiment associated with the expansion of suitable crops for cultivation in the course of the Columbian …

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Poverty, labour markets and trade liberalization in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - 2013

We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 Indonesian regions, and investigate the labour market mechanisms behind these effects. The identification strategy relies on combining information on initial regional labour and product...

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Tariffs, social status, and gender in India

Anukriti, S.; Kumler, Todd J. - 2014

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of...

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