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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
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Climatic Fluctuations and the Diffusion of Agriculture
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2013
This research examines the climatic origins of the diffusion of Neolithic agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a foraging society s history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of farming. Specifically, as long as climatic disturbances...
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Moving Out of Agriculture : Structural Change in Vietnam
McCaig, Brian - 2013
We examine the role of structural change in the economic development of Vietnam from 1990 to 2008. Structural change accounted for a third of the growth in aggregate labor productivity during this period, which averaged 5.1 percent per annum. We discuss the role of reforms in agriculture,...
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The Depressing Effect of Agricultural Institutions on the Prewar Japanese Economy
Hayashi, Fumio; Prescott, Edward C. - 2021
The question we address in this paper is why the Japanese miracle didn't take place until after World War II. For much of the pre-WWII period, Japan's real GNP per worker was not much more than a third of that of the U.S., with falling capital intensity. We argue that its major cause is a...
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Property Rights to Land and Agricultural Organization : An Argentina-United States Comparison
Edwards, Eric; Fiszbein, Martin; Libecap, Gary - 2022
The contributions of Harold Demsetz offer key insights on how property rights and transaction costs shape economic organization. This guides our comparison of agricultural organization in two comparable regions, the Argentine Pampas and the US Midwest. In the US, land was distributed in small...
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The Service Sector as India's Road to Economic Growth
Eichengreen, Barry - 2011
While India is distinctive among developing countries for its fast-growing service sector, sceptics have raised doubts …
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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?
Harrison, Ann E. - 2011
, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …
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The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities : Evidence from India
Chin, Aimee - 2010
assemblies in India generated by national policies that cause reservations to be revised and the time lags with which revised …
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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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Employment Protection Legislation and Plant-Level Productivity in India
Dougherty, Sean Michael - 2011
) on total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity in India. Identification of the effect of EPL follows from a …
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