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The gendered effects of climate change: production shocks and labor response in agriculture
Afridi, Farzana; Mahajan, Kanika; Sangwan, Nikita - 2021
Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012592972
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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283184
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Gender-biased technological change : milking machines and the exodus of women from farming
Ager, Philipp; Goñi, Marc; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
-level data from the Census of Agriculture, we show that the adoption of milking machines triggered a process of structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014319184
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Growth, colonization, and institutional development : in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
research. -- growth ; Africa ; history ; colonization ; institutions ; state fragility ; slavery …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310834
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Immigration restrictions as active labor market policy : evidence from the Mexican bracero exclusion
Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan; Postel, Hannah M. - 2017
An important class of active labor market policy has received little rigorous impact evaluation: immigration barriers intended to improve the terms of employment for domestic workers by deliberately shrinking the workforce. Recent advances in the theory of endogenous technical change suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607505
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Seasonal credit constraints and agricultural labor supply : evidence from Zambia
Fink, Guenther; Jack, B. Kelsey; Masiye, Felix - 2014
Small-scale farming remains the primary source of income for a majority of the population in developing countries. While most farmers primarily work on their own fields, off-farm labor is common among small-scale farmers. A growing literature suggests that off-farm labor is not the result of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440550
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Bitter sugar: slavery and the black family
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020
We empirically assess the effect of historical slavery on the African American family structure. Our hypothesis is that … female single headship among blacks is more likely to emerge in association not with slavery per se, but with slavery in … for migrants. By 1990, the effect of sugar is replaced by that of slavery and the black share, consistent with the spread …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228595
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The long shadow of slavery: the persistence of slave owners in Southern law-making
Bellani, Luna; Hager, Anselm; Maurer, Stephan - 2020
This paper documents the persistence of the Southern slave owning elite in political power after the end of the American Civil War. We draw on a database of Texan state legislators between 1860 and 1900 and link them to their or their ancestors' slaveholdings in 1860. We then show that former...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267664
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Health information, treatment, and worker productivity : experimental evidence from malaria testing and treatment among Nigerian sugarcane cutters
Dillon, Andrew; Friedman, Jed; Serneels, Pieter - 2014
Agricultural and other physically demanding sectors are important sources of growth in developing countries but prevalent diseases such as malaria adversely impact the productivity, labor supply, and occupational choice of workers in these sectors by reducing physical capacity. This study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339660
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005340