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Contract Farming and Rural Transformation : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Benin

Arouna, Aminou - 2019

agriculture. Yet, there is a lack of consensus on its ability to spur structural transformation in rural economies. We present …

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Economic Backwardness and Catching Up : Brazilian Agriculture, 1964–2014

Alston, Lee J. - 2016

country to country depending on which perquisites were present or absent. In the past twenty years, Brazilian agriculture … is in the worlds' top five producers of coffee, soybeans, oranges, beef and corn. Yet, some segments of agriculture lag …

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Facilitating Savings for Agriculture : Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi

Brune, Lasse - 2015

We implemented a randomized intervention among Malawian farmers aimed at facilitating formal savings for agricultural inputs. Treated farmers were offered the opportunity to have their cash crop harvest proceeds deposited directly into new bank accounts in their own names, while farmers in the...

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The Contribution of China, India and Brazil to Narrowing North-South Differences in Gdp/Capita, World Trade Shares, and Market Capitalization

Wang, Jing - 2012

/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … time. In contrast the North‐China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using … market exchange rates and from 23.4 to 5.5 for China and from 20.7 to 11.4 for India using PPP rates. We calculate the …

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Big BRICS, Weak Foundations : The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China

Chaudhary, Latika - 2014

developing economies circa 1910: Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). These four countries encompassed more than 50 percent of …

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Options-Pricing Formula with Disaster Risk

Barro, Robert J. - 2016

A new options-pricing formula applies to far-out-of-the money put options on the overall stock market when disaster risk is the dominant force, the size distribution of disasters follows a power law, and the economy has a representative agent with Epstein-Zin utility. In the applicable region,...

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Using Aggregated Relational Data to Feasibly Identify Network Structure Without Network Data

Breza, Emily - 2017

alone. Finally, using calculations from J-PAL fieldwork, we show that in rural India, for example, ARD surveys are 80 …

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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies

McMillan, Margaret - 2017

development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries—Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil —all …

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CEO Behavior and Firm Performance

Bandiera, Oriana - 2017

We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in six countries parsing granular CEO diary data through an unsupervised machine learning algorithm. The algorithm uncovers two distinct behavioral types: “leaders” and “managers”. Leaders focus on multi-function, high-level meetings, while managers...

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Toward an Understanding of Reference-Dependent Labor Supply : Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment

Andersen, Steffen - 2018

Perhaps the most powerful form of framing arises through reference dependence, wherein choices are made recognizing the starting point or a goal. In labor economics, for example, a form of reference dependence, income targeting, has been argued to represent a serious challenge to traditional...

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