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Learning about Farming: Innovation and Social Networks in a Resettled Community in Brazil

Comola, Margherita; Inguaggiato, Carla; Mendola, Mariapia - 2021

We study the role of social learning in the diffusion of cash crops in a resettled village economy in northeastern Brazil. We combine detailed geo-coded data on farming plots with dyadic data on social ties among settlers, and we leverage natural exogenous variation in network formation induced...

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Agriculture: Transition Buffer or Black Hole? A Three-State Model of Employment Dynamics

Voicu, Alexandru - 2003

We analyze the effect of land reform legislation on labor market dynamics in the Romanian economy. We show that the agricultural sector, a source of precarious employment, has become an absorbing state for certain categories of workers who lost their jobs in the nonagricultural sector. A random...

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Twins, Family Size, and Female Labor Force Participation in Iran

Majbouri, Mahdi - 2018

Despite the remarkable increase in women's education levels and the rapid fall of their fertility rate in Iran, female … force participation in Iran. Policy implications are discussed. …

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Oil exports and the Iranian economy

Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, … - 2009

effects of oil exports are taken into account, the estimates support output growth convergence between Iran and the rest of …, which could be partly due to the relatively underdeveloped nature of Iran's financial markets. …

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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Female Labor Force Participation in Iran

Dang, Hai-Anh; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Do, Minh N.N. - 2024

While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the …

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A Comparison of Panel Data Models in Estimating Technical Efficiency

Rashidghalam, Masoomeh; Heshmati, Almas; Dashti, Ghader; … - 2016

efficiency of Iran's cotton production and to provide empirical evidence on the sources of technical inefficiency of cotton …

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International Sanctions and Labor Emigration: A Case Study of Iran

Zareei, Afsaneh; Falahi, Mohammad Ali; Wadensjö, Eskil; … - 2024

is punished for its government's behavior. Sanctions can create problems due to international migration. Iran is an …, and reducing exports and imports. At the same time, Iran had a very fast growth of emigration with an increase of 141 … percent. Sanctions have been imposed on Iran's economy in different ways, but so far, it has not been determined how each type …

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The impact of education on the subjective discount rate in Ugandan villages

Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009

Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...

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Are Hispanic immigrant families reviving the economies of America's small towns?

Coates, Dennis; Gindling, T. H. - 2010

In the 1990s, rural areas and small towns in the United States, which had been losing population, became the destinations for an increasing number of Hispanic immigrants and their families, slowing and in some cases reversing population declines. In this paper, we examine whether faster growth...

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Rural windfall or a new resource curse? coca, income, and civil conflict in Colombia

Angrist, Joshua D.; Kugler, Adriana D. - 2007

Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. Even legally traded commodities such as oil and timber have been linked to civil war. On the other...

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