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Moving Out of Agriculture : Structural Change in Vietnam
McCaig, Brian - 2013
discuss the role of reforms in agriculture, enterprises, and international integration in this process. In addition to the … drastic move of employment away from agriculture toward services and manufacturing, we also document the movement of workers …
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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 Depressing Effect of Agricultural Institutions on the Prewar Japanese Economy
Hayashi, Fumio; Prescott, Edward C. - 2021
stay in agriculture …
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Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size
Foster, Andrew D. - 2017
scales. Using data from the India ICRISAT VLS panel survey we find evidence consistent with these conditions, suggesting that …
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Analyzing the Impact of the World's Largest Public Works Project on Crime
Das, Satadru - 2016
India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within …
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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, David; Mamun, Abdullah; Martin, Will J.; … - 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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Local Effects of Land Grant Colleges on Agricultural Innovation and Output
Andrews, Michael - 2019
To estimate the local effect of establishing land grant colleges, I compare locations that receive a land grant college to “runner-up” counties that were in contention to receive the land grant but did not for as-good-as-random reasons. I find that establishing a land grant college causes an...
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The Unintended Impacts of Agricultural Fires : Human Capital in China
Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2019
The practice of burning agricultural waste is ubiquitous around the world, yet the external human capital costs from those fires have been underexplored. Using data from the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) and agricultural fires detected by high-resolution satellites in China during...
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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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