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Modernizing smallholder agriculture and achieving food security : an exploration in machinery services and labor reallocation in China

Zou, Baoling; Mishra, Ashok K. - 2024

Worldwide, most farms are small and family-operated. This study discusses the future of smallholder agriculture in China, where most farms are small, and farms' parcels are fragmented. The study puts forward a framework of vertical division of labor and specialized production in agriculture. We...

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Military spending and innovation : learning from 19th century world fair exhibition data

Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia; Feuerbaum, Carsten - 2023

. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending …

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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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Winter is coming : the long-run effects of climate change on conflict, 1400-1900

Iyigun, Murat; Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - 2017

This paper investigates the long-run effects of climate change on conflict by examining cooling from 1400-1900 CE, a period that includes most of the Little Ice Age. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which...

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Agricultural credits and agricultural productivity : cross-country evidence

Seven, Unal; Tumen, Semih - 2020

We present cross-country evidence suggesting that agricultural credits have a positive impact on agricultural productivity. In particular, we find that doubling agricultural credits generates around 4-5 percent increase in agricultural productivity. We use two different agricultural production...

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Water tariffs and consumers' inaction

Ornaghi, Carmine; Tonin, Mirco - 2018

We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …

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For want of a cup: the rise of tea in England and the impact of water quality on mortality

Antman, Francisca M. - 2022

This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea … consumption in 18th century England. This resulted in an unintentional increase in consumption of boiled water, thereby reducing … mortality rates. The methodology uses two identication strategies tying areas with lower initial water quality to larger …

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

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

in the geographical coverage and timing of construction of safe government piped water schemes to identify the effects of …

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Equilibrium allele distribution in trading populations

Saint-Paul, Gilles (contributor) - 2006

This paper derives the conditions under which fitness-reducing alleles can survive in a long-run stationary equilibrium for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for arbitrary systems of sexual reproduction. -- trade ; genotypes ; natural selection ; gene-culture...

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Where did it go wrong? : marriage and divorce in Malawi

Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram de; Walther, Selma; … - 2016

Do individuals divorce for economic reasons? Can we measure the attractiveness of new matches in the marriage market? We answer these questions using a structural model of the household and a rich panel dataset from Malawi. We propose a model of the household with consumption, production and...

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