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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...

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Leveraging Patients' Social Networks to Overcome Tuberculosis Underdetection : A Field Experiment in India

Goldberg, Jessica - 2018

context. In an experiment with 3,182 patients at 128 tuberculosis (TB) treatment centers in India, we find peers are indeed …

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Moving to Segregation : Evidence from 8 Italian Cities

Boeri, Tito - 2012

We use a new dataset and a novel identification strategy to analyze the effects of residential segregation on the employment of migrants in 8 Italian cities. Our data, which are representative of the population of both legal and illegal migrants, allow us to measure segregation at the very local...

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Does "Network Closure" Beef Up Import Premium?

2019

We investigate whether network closure in the supply chain can explain the heterogeneity observed in import premia. Using unique panel data on trade flows among beef farms in the Italian region of Piedmont, we analyze a purely sequential supply chain characterized by the co-existence of two...

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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 …

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Contract Structure, Time Preference, and Technology Adoption

Chowdhury, Shyamal K. - 2020

Do constraints to technology adoption vary by behavioral traits? We randomize 150 villages in Bangladesh into being offered standard microcredit, loans with a grace period, the choice between those two contracts, and control. No discernible average effects are detected on the adoption of...

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Impact of Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes on Seasonal Labor Markets : Optimum Compensation and Workers' Welfare

Basu, Arnab K. - 2011

The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that … compensation to public work employees consistent with the objectives of (i) productive efficiency in agriculture and (ii) welfare …

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Recovery Performance of Primary Agriculture Credit Societies in India : An Assessment

Mazumder, Rabin - 2014

credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having … institution. The present study examines the recovery performance of rural credit given by PACS in six different regions of India … Bank of India in collaboration with State Governments …

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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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Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers

Naudé, Wim - 2015

African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …

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