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Land Reform and Productivity : A Quantitative Analysis with Micro Data

Adamopoulos, Tasso - 2020

redistributed farm lands. We study this reform in the context of an industry model of agriculture with a non-degenerate distribution …

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Growing in Debt : the 'Farm Crisis' and Public Policy

Calomiris, Charles W.; Hubbard, R. Glenn; Stock, James H. - 2021

unable for institutional reasons to diversify their loan risks either within agriculture or across other geographically …

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Modeling the Impacts of Agricultural Support Policies on Emissions from Agriculture

Laborde Debucquet, David; Mamun, Abdullah; Martin, Will; … - 2022

) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full evaluation of the impacts, it uses a counterfactual global model scenario … that currently tax agriculture have high emission intensities. Policies that directly reduce emission intensities yield …

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Vat Base Broadening, Self Supply, and the Informal Sector

Piggott, John; Whalley, John - 2021

We develop a general equilibrium tax model to evaluate the impacts of equal yield base broadening in indirect taxes from high rate narrow based (typically manufactures) taxes to broad based taxes (including services) such as a VAT. We capture differences in choice of mode of supply between...

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Agriculture, Roads, and Economic Development in Uganda

Gollin, Douglas - 2014

A large fraction of Uganda's population continues to earn a living from quasi-subsistence agriculture. This paper uses …-subsistence agriculture is highly sensitive both to agricultural productivity levels and to transportation costs. The model also suggests …

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Risk and Return in Village Economies

Samphantharak, Krislert - 2013

This paper provides a theory-based empirical framework for understanding the risk and return on productive capital assets and their allocation across activities in an economy characterized by idiosyncratic and aggregate risk and thin formal markets for real and financial assets. We apply our...

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Perverse Consequences of Well Intentioned Regulation : Evidence from India's Child Labor Ban

Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2014

While bans against child labor are a common policy tool, there is very little empirical evidence validating their effectiveness. In this paper, we examine the consequences of India's landmark legislation against child labor, the Child Labor (Prohibition and Regulation) Act of 1986. Using data...

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Convergence Clubs and Subsistence Economies

Ben-David, Dan - 2021

This paper focuses on one possible explanation for the empirical evidence of (a) income convergence among the world's poorest countries and among its wealthiest countries, and (b) income divergence among most of the remaining countries. The model incorporates the assumption of subsistence...

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Misallocation, Selection and Productivity : A Quantitative Analysis with Panel Data from China

Adamopoulos, Tasso - 2017

factor misallocation in agriculture. We find that there are substantial frictions in both the land and capital markets linked … (misallocation) and (2) the allocation of workers across sectors, in particular the type of farmers who operate in agriculture … affecting occupational choices that worsen the distribution of productive units in agriculture …

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Finance, Farms, and the Fed's Early Years

Carlin, Bruce Ian - 2017

hand-collected data on banking and agriculture in Illinois in the early 20th century. The mechanism for the Fed's effect on … agriculture was a bank credit channel, operating independently of any deflationary effect on money supply. Our findings suggest …

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