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Air Pollution and Agricultural Productivity in a Developing Country

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2023

I document negative externalities of air pollution in the Indian agricultural sector. Using variation in pollution induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity, with large changes in productivity being common. The...

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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 …

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The Agricultural Productivity Gap and Self-Employment Bias in the Labor Income Share

Paul, Saumik - 2020

-sector neoclassical framework with agriculture and non-agriculture, we derive the productivity-adjusted aggregate labor income share in … terms of the agricultural productivity gap, and the labor income share in non-agriculture and value-added factor shares. We … significant only in agriculture, which can be attributed to the heavily underreported income from self-employed workers in …

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Agricultural Credits and Agricultural Productivity : Cross-Country Evidence

Seven, Unal - 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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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus : The Importance of Choosing the 'Right' Indicator

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2010

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...

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Economic Well-Being and Anti-Semitic, Xenophobic, and Racist Attitudes in Germany

Mocan, Naci - 2014

The fear and hatred of others who are different has economic consequences because such feelings are likely to translate into discrimination in labor, credit, housing, and other markets. The implications range from earnings inequality to intergenerational mobility. Using German data from various...

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Unfairness at Work : Well-Being and Quits

D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2018

We here consider the effect of the level of income that individuals consider to be fair for the job they do, which we take as measure of comparison income, on both subjective well-being and objective future job quitting. In six waves of German Socio-Economic Panel data, the extent to which own...

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Beyond GDP and Back : What is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?

de New (née Kassenboehmer), Sonja C. - 2011

Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...

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Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing Using Millions of Digitized Books

Proto, Eugenio - 2015

go back at least 200 years further using our methods. We analyse data for six countries (the USA, UK, Germany, France …

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Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies

Caliendo, Marco - 2016

. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich …

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