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The Evolving Impact of the Ogallala Aquifer : Agricultural Adaptation to Groundwater and Climate

Hornbeck, Richard - 2015

Agriculture on the American Great Plains has been constrained by historical water scarcity. After World War II …, technological improvements made groundwater from the Ogallala aquifer available for irrigation. Comparing counties over the Ogallala … with nearby similar counties, groundwater access increased irrigation intensity and initially reduced the impact of …

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Reevaluating Agricultural Productivity Gaps with Longitudinal Microdata

Hicks, Joan - 2017

Recent research has pointed to large gaps in labor productivity between the agricultural and nonagricultural sectors in low-income countries, as well as between workers in rural and urban areas. Most estimates are based on national accounts or repeated cross-sections of micro-survey data, and as...

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Agricultural Innovation

Wright, Brian D. - 2015

. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …

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Agricultural Improvements and Access to Rail Transportation : the American Midwest as a Test Case, 1850-1860

Atack, Jeremy - 2015

During the 1850s, land in U.S. farms surged by more than 100 million acres while almost 50 million acres of land were transformed from their raw, natural state into productive farmland. The time and expense of transforming this land into a productive resource represented a significant fraction...

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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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Innovation, Growth and Structural Change in American Agriculture

Andersen, Matt A.; Pardey, Philip G. - 2022

U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical …, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today’s agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms … the United States towards agriculturally important middle-income countries, especially China, India and Brazil. U …

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Nutritional Status and Agricultural Surpluses in the Antebellum United States

Craig, Lee A.; Weiss, Thomas - 2021

We model the relationship between local agricultural surpluses, nutritional status, and height, and we test the hypothesis that adult height is positively correlated with the local production of nutrition in infancy. We test the hypothesis on two samples of Union Army recruits - one consisting...

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Financing Smallholder Agriculture : An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India

Maitra, Pushkar - 2014

Recent evaluations of traditional microfinance loans have found no significant impacts on borrower incomes or productive activities. We examine whether this can be remedied by (a) modifying loan features to facilitate financing of working capital needs of farmers, and (b) delegating selection of...

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Assessing the Benefits of Long-Run Weather Forecasting for the Rural Poor : Farmer Investments and Worker Migration in a Dynamic Equilibrium Model

Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2019

The livelihoods of the majority of the world's poor depend on agriculture. They face substantial risk from fluctuations …, migration and rural wages respond to forecasts. We calculate that if such skill were pervasive across India, the total value of …

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Rainfall Forecasts, Weather and Wages Over the Agricultural Production Cycle

Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2014

We look at the effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages over the course of the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can...

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