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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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Wheat or Strawberries? Intermediated Trade with Limited Contracting

Krishna, Kala - 2014

Why do developing countries fail to specialize in products in which they appear to have a comparative advantage? We propose a model of agricultural trade with intermediation that explains how hold-up resulting from poor contracting environments can produce such an outcome. We use the model to...

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New Goods and the Transition to a New Economy

Greenwood, Jeremy; Uysal, Gokce - 2021

worked in agriculture. Barely anyone did by 2000. What caused the rapid demise of agriculture in the economy? The analysis …

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Sequencing and Welfare : Labor Markets and Agriculture

Edwards, Sebastian - 2021

Recent discussions on structural adjustment and market-oriented reforms in developing and Eastern European nations have addressed the issue of the appropriate sequencing of these reforms. Most of the traditional work on the subject has concluded that the preferred sequencing should include, as a...

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Learning Through Noticing : Theory and Experimental Evidence in Farming

Hanna, Rema - 2015

Existing learning models attribute failures to learn to a lack of data. We model a different barrier. Given the large number of dimensions one could focus on when using a technology, people may fail to learn because they failed to notice important features of the data they possess. We conduct a...

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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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Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation : Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2016

. We calibrate the model to firm-level data from the U.S. and India. We show that the model is quantitatively consistent … quantitative analysis shows that the low efficiency of delegation in India can account for 5% of productivity and 15% of income … differences between the U.S. and India in steady state. We also show that such inefficient delegation possibilities reduce the …

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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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Educational Choice, Rural-Urban Migration and Economic Development

Liao, Pei-Ju - 2017

Observing rapid structural transformation accompanied by a continual process of rural to urban migration in many developing countries, we construct a micro founded dynamic framework to explore how important education-based migration is, as opposed to work-based migration, for economic...

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Consistent Trade Policy Aggregation

Anderson, James E. - 2008

-country policy modeling. An application to India shows that the standard atheoretic method of aggregation overstates India's real …

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