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agriculture. Using a nationally representative panel dataset for Nigeria from 2010-2015, in combination with armed conflict data … that on average, exposure to violent conflict significantly reduces total family labor supply hours in agriculture. We also …
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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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Using updated data, we analyze the long-run effects of two British colonial institutions established in India. Iyer …
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with the best access to local telecommunications infrastructures. These same attributes have been associated with rising …
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In EU countries, opening up of telecommunications markets and regulations have helped to reduce the price of digital … services which is an important quasi-input factor in all firms. Integrating the use of telecommunications in a macroeconomic … production function is the analytical starting point for our interdependent analysis of output, use of telecommunications and …
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It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in cellular telephony than in the others. By evaluating the importance of … offer policy implications for alleviating differences between countries in international telecommunications development. …
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with the best access to local telecommunications infrastructures. These same attributes have been associated with rising …
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This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers...
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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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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation which is rarely directly measured even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly compare...
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