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Dust to Feed, Dust to Grey : The Effect of In-Utero Exposure to the Dust Bowl on Old-Age Longevity
Noghanibehambari, Hamid; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Intensive agriculture and deep plowing resulted in top-soil erosion and dust storms during the 1930s. These effects have been shown to affect agricultural income and land values that persisted for years. Given the growing literature on the relevance of in-utero and early-life exposures, it is...
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Economic Production and Biodiversity in the United States
Liang, Yuanning; Rudik, Ivan J.; Zou, Eric Yongchen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
causal evidence on the economic drivers of biodiversity loss using a novel panel dataset on the types and quantities of … pollution as underlying contributors to contemporaneous biodiversity declines …
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Biodiversity Risk
Giglio, Stefano; Kuchler, Theresa; Stroebel, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We explore the effects of physical and regulatory risks related to biodiversity loss on economic activity and asset … values. We first develop a news-based measure of aggregate biodiversity risk and analyze how it varies over time. We also … construct and publicly release several firm-level measures of exposure to biodiversity risk, based on textual analyses of firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250155
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The Institutional Costs of Adaptation : Agricultural Drainage in the United States
Edwards, Eric C.; Thurman, Walter N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Tile drainage was first demonstrated in the United States in 1835 as a method to adapt agriculture to excessive water …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210109
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The Anatomy of a Credit Crisis : The Boom and Bust in Farm Land Prices in the United States in the 1920s
Rajan, Raghuram - 2012
Does credit availability exacerbate asset price inflation? What channels could it work through? What are the long run consequences? In this paper we address these questions by examining the farm land price boom (and bust) in the United States that preceded the Great Depression. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460632
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Labor Dynamics and Supply Chain Disruption in Food Manufacturing
Ramsey, A. Ford; Goodwin, Barry K.; Haley, Mildred A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Food manufacturing and processing is an important link between agricultural producers and consumers in the agricultural supply chain. The food manufacturing sector in the United States is both increasingly mechanized and increasingly concentrated. Consequently, labor risks in food manufacturing...
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Environmental Drivers of Agricultural Productivity Growth : CO2 Fertilization of US Field Crops
Taylor, Charles A.; Schlenker, Wolfram - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We assess the CO<sub>2</sub> fertilization effect on US agriculture using spatially-varying CO<sub>2</sub> data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite covering the majority of US cropland under actual growing conditions. This study complements the many CO<sub>2</sub> enrichment experiments that have found...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012659998
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Innovation, Growth and Structural Change in American Agriculture
Alston, Julian M. - 2020
U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today's agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms are much larger and more specialized, supplying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481789
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Is Agricultural Production Becoming More or Less Sensitive to Extreme Heat? Evidence from U.S. Corn and Soybean Yields
Roberts, Michael J. - 2010
risen continuously since World War II, we find no evidence that relative tolerance to extreme heat has improved between 1950 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462349
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Identifying Supply and Demand Elasticities of Agricultural Commodities : Implications for the US Ethanol Mandate
Roberts, Michael J. - 2010
impact of ethanol subsidies and mandates on world food commodity prices, quantities, and food consumers' surplus. The current … US ethanol mandate requires that about 5 percent of world caloric production from corn, wheat, rice, and soybeans be used … for ethanol generation. As a result, world food prices are predicted to increase by about 30 percent and global consumer …
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