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Grain Today, Gain Tomorrow : Evidence from a Storage Experiment with Savings Clubs in Kenya
Aggarwal, Shilpa - 2018
year, and because grain prices are low at harvest but rise over the year. We experimentally provided two saving schemes to …
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Prices and Coupons for Breakfast Cereals
Nevo, Aviv; Wolfram, Catherine D. - 2000
This paper explores the relationship between shelf prices and manufacturers' coupons for 25 ready-to-eat breakfast cereals. Contrary to the predictions of static monopoly price discrimination, we find the shelf prices for a particular brand in a particular city are generally lower during periods...
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Is Agricultural Production Becoming More or Less Sensitive to Extreme Heat? Evidence from U.S. Corn and Soybean Yields
Roberts, Michael J. - 2010
Extreme heat is the single best predictor of corn and soybean yields in the United States. While average yields have risen continuously since World War II, we find no evidence that relative tolerance to extreme heat has improved between 1950 and 2005. Climate change forecasts project a sharp...
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Corn Production Shocks in 2012 and Beyond : Implications for Food Price Volatility
Berry, Steven - 2012
Corn prices increased sharply in the summer of 2012 due to expected production shortfalls in the United States, which produces roughly 40% of the world's corn. A heat wave in July adversely affected corn production. We extend earlier statistical models of county-level corn yields in the Eastern...
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Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields : The Importance of Nonlinear Temperature Effects
Schlenker, Wolfram - 2013
The United States produces 41% of the world's corn and 38% of the world's soybeans, so any impact on US crop yields will have implications for world food supply. We pair a panel of county-level crop yields in the US with a fine-scale weather data set that incorporates the whole distribution of...
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Yield Performance of Corn Under Heat Stress : A Comparison of Hybrid and Open-Pollinated Seeds During a Period of Technological Transformation, 1933-1955
Meyers, Keith; Rhode, Paul W. - 2022
Starting in the 1930s, commercial hybrid corn seeds rapidly replaced the once predominant open-pollinated varieties planted by farmers. By the mid-1950s almost all corn grown in the United States was of hybrid varieties. Observers have argued that the drought tolerant qualities of these hybrids...
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China's Import Demand for Agricultural Products : The Impact of the Phase One Trade Agreement
Feenstra, Robert C.; Hong, Chang - 2022
In December 2019, the United States and China reached a Phase One trade agreement, under which China committed to …, as compared to 2017. We show that the most efficient way for China to increase its imports from the United States is to … mimic the effect of an import subsidy. If China’s agricultural imports did not otherwise grow from their 2017 values, then …
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Long-Run Impacts of Agricultural Shocks on Educational Attainment : Evidence from the Boll Weevil
Baker, Richard B. - 2018
The boll weevil spread across the Southern United States from 1892 to 1922 having a devastating impact on cotton cultivation. The resulting shift away from this child labor–intensive crop lowered the opportunity cost of attending school, and thus the pest increased school enrollment and...
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Commodity Market Disintegration in the Interwar Period
Hynes, William M. - 2009
Using data collected by the International Institute of Agriculture, we document the disintegration of international commodity markets between 1913 and 1938. There was dramatic disintegration during World War I, gradual reintegration during the 1920s, and then a very substantial disintegration...
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The Predictive Content of Commodity Futures
Chinn, Menzie David - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between spot and futures prices for a broad range of commodities, including energy, precious and base metals, and agricultural commodities. In particular, we examine whether futures prices are (1) an unbiased and/or (2) accurate predictor of subsequent spot...
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