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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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Should farmers farm more? : comparing marginal products within Malawian households
Brummund, Peter; Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2021
According to standard economic theory, households should equate the marginal revenue product of an input across activities within the household. However, this prediction may not hold in the presence of risk. Using data on farm plots and non-farm enterprises in Malawi, we examine the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612629
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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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Little divergence in America : market access and demographic transition in the United States
Guldi, Melanie; Rahman, Ahmed S. - 2022
19th century in the United States. We construct new measures of fertility changes and measures of railroad access at the … county level from 1850 - 1890. We are able to document market-access-induced changes in fertility due to both extensive … margins (shifts in occupations with different average fertility rates) and intensive margins (changes in fertility within each …
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The agricultural origins of time preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2014
and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to …
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Are environmental concerns deterring people from having children?
Lockwood, Ben; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2022
Are 'green' environmental concerns - about climate change, biodiversity, pollution - deterring today's citizens from having children? This paper, which we believe to be the first of its kind, reports preliminary evidence consistent with that increasingly discussed hypothesis. Our study has a...
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Quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics : opportunities and challenges
Deschênes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C. - 2018
This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...
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Spouses' access to financial services : estimating technological and managerial gaps in production
Malabayabas, Maria Luz L.; Mishra, Ashok K.; Mayorga, … - 2023
-help groups can increase farm productivity, and extension agents should also focus on spouses and their role in farming decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014423509
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Population growth and carbon emissions
Casey, Gregory; Galor, Oded - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions …, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility … on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581727
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Rainfall risk and fertility : evidence from farm settlements during the American demographic transition
Grimm, Michael - 2016
Fertility is a main driver and outcome of long-term growth. Yet, fertility may not only interact with the level of … income but also with its volatility. In pre-modern economies where formal social security was largely absent, fertility … transition in the United States covering the period 1870 to 1930 and explore whether variation in fertility among American …
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