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Does Agriculture Generate Local Economic Spillovers? Short-Run and Long-Run Evidence from the Ogallala Aquifer
Hornbeck, Richard - 2012
Agricultural development may support broader economic development, though agricultural expansion may also crowd-out local non-agricultural activity. On the United States Plains, areas over the Ogallala aquifer experienced windfall agricultural gains when post-WWII technologies increased farmers'...
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Health information, treatment, and worker productivity : experimental evidence from malaria testing and treatment among Nigerian sugarcane cutters
Dillon, Andrew; Friedman, Jed; Serneels, Pieter - 2014
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Productivity and health : alternative productivity estimates using physical activity
Akogun, Oladele; Dillon, Andrew; Friedman, Jed; … - 2017
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The Growth Costs of Malaria
McCarthy, F. Desmond; Wolf, Holger C.; Wu, Yi - 2021
Malaria ranks among the foremost health issues facing tropical countries. In this paper, we explore the determinants of cross-country differences in malaria morbidity, and examine the linkage between malaria and economic growth. Using a classification rule analysis, we confirm the dominant role...
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Does voice matter? : For public accountability, yes
Paul, Samuel - 1994
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Decentralizing water resource management : economic incentives, accountability, and assurance
Easter, Kenneth William; Hearne, Robert R. - 1993
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Political economy and political risks of institutional reform in the water sector
Dinar, Ariel; Balakrishnan, Trichur K.; Wambia, Joseph - 1998
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Factor market failures and the adoption of irrigation in Rwanda
Jones, Maria; Kondylis, Florence; Loeser, John Ashton; … - 2019
This paper examines constraints to adoption of new technologies in the context of hillside irrigation schemes in Rwanda …. It leverages a plot-level spatial regression discontinuity design to produce 3 key results. First, irrigation enables dry … irrigation causes farmers to substitute labor and inputs away from their other plots. Eliminating this substitution would …
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Pricing irrigation water : a literature survey
Johansson, Robert C. - 2000
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Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda
Jones, Maria; Kondylis, Florence; Loeser, John; … - 2021
We examine constraints to adoption of new technologies in the context of hillside irrigation schemes in Rwanda. We … leverage a plot-level spatial regression discontinuity design to produce 3 key results. First, irrigation enables dry season … horticultural production, which boosts on-farm cash profits by 70%. Second, adoption is constrained: access to irrigation causes …
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