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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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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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Ricardo's Theory of Comparative Advantage : Old Idea, New Evidence

Costinot, Arnaud - 2012

When asked to name one proposition in the social sciences that is both true and non-trivial, Paul Samuelson famously replied: 'Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage'. Truth, however, in Samuelson's reply refers to the fact that Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage is mathematically...

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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 Impact of Retaliatory Tariffs on Agricultural and Food Trade

Carter, Colin A.; Steinbach, Sandro - 2022

This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the … United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and …

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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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