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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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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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External Validity in a Stochastic World

Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2016

in agriculture, small and medium enterprises and human capital differ significantly from year to year. We also show how …

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The Biophysical and Economic Geographies of Global Climate Impacts on Agriculture

Baldos, Uris - 2018

agriculture. It does so by bridging the extensive literature on climate impacts on yields and physical productivity in global crop …

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Gravity and Comparative Advantage : Estimation of Trade Elasticities for the Agricultural Sector

Heerman, Kari - 2018

In this paper, a structural gravity model is presented which features intra-sector heterogeneity in agricultural productivity systematically linked to land and climate characteristics. The “systematic heterogeneity” (SH) gravity model predicts that countries with similar land and climate...

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Business Cycle During Structural Change : Arthur Lewis' Theory from a Neoclassical Perspective

Storesletten, Kjetil - 2019

agriculture declines while labor productivity increases in agriculture more than in other sectors. We construct a unified theory … simultaneous decline and modernization of agriculture. As capital accumulates, agriculture becomes increasingly capital intensive … as modern agriculture crowds out traditional agriculture. Structural change accelerates in booms and slows down in …

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The Food Problem and the Aggregate Productivity Consequences of Climate Change

Nath, Ishan - 2022

heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to … perversely pulls labor into agriculture where its productivity suffers most and reallocation exacerbates the global decline in …

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Group Lending with Heterogeneous Types

Gan, Li - 2013

estimate the model using a rich dataset from a group lending program in India. The estimation results support our model …

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Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size : Evidence from India

Alfaro, Laura - 2014

This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm-size dynamics …

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Firm-Specific Information and the Efficiency of Investment

Chari, Anusha - 2006

We use a new firm-level dataset to examine the efficiency of investment in emerging economies. In the three-year period following stock market liberalizations, the growth rate of the typical firm's capital stock exceeds its pre-liberalization mean by an average of 5.4 percentage points....

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