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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded - 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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Got Water? Social Divisions and Access to Public Goods in Rural India
Balasubramaniam, Divya - 2014
We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social … divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu …
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India's Increasing Skill Premium : Role of Demand and Supply
Azam, Mehtabul - 2009
in India. The findings of this paper are that the increase in the wage premium has come mostly from demand shifts in …The tertiary-secondary (college-high school) wage premium has been increasing in India over the past decade, but the … groups have not experienced any significant increase. This paper uses the demand and supply model with imperfect substitution …
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Effect of Health Insurance in India : A Randomized Controlled Trial
Malani, Anup; Holtzman, Phoebe; Imai, Kosuke; Kinnan, … - 2022
We report on a large randomized controlled trial of hospital insurance for above-poverty-line Indian households. Households were assigned to free insurance, sale of insurance, sale plus cash transfer, or control. To estimate spillovers, the fraction of households offered insurance varied across...
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Fertility and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We argue, and provide ethnographic evidence, that the finding is explained by the fact that with plough agriculture, children, like women, are relatively less useful in the field....
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Child Labor and Schooling Response to Changes in Coca Production in Rural Peru
Dammert, Ana - 2014
Coca eradication and interdiction are the most common policies aimed at reducing the production and distribution of cocaine in the Andes, but little is known about their impact on households. This paper uses the shift in the production of coca leaves from Peru to Colombia in 1995 to analyze the...
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Incentivizing Learning-by-Doing : The Role of Compensation Schemes
Graff Zivin, Joshua - 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...
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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures
Galor, Oded - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978167
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Robust Dynamic Space-Time Panel Data Models Using?-Contamination : an Application to Crop Yields and Climate Change
Baltagi, Badi H.; Bresson, Georges; Chaturvedi, Anoop; … - 2023
This paper extends the Baltagi et al. (2018, 2021) static and dynamic ?-contamination papers to dynamic space-time models. We investigate the robustness of Bayesian panel data models to possible misspecification of the prior distribution. The proposed robust Bayesian approach departs from the...
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Electricity Prices, River Temperatures and Cooling Water Scarcity
McDermott, Grant R. - 2013
increased river temperatures on German electricity prices from 2002 to 2009. Having controlled for demand effects, the results … demand, but also via increased water temperatures and scarcity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089970