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Endogenous Participation in Agricultural Support Programs and Ad Valoremequivalent Modelling

Whalley, John - 2015

This paper argues that a price wedge treatment of agricultural supports can seriously misrepresent their welfare and quantity effects. We make our point by focusing on pre-1985 US wheat programs, but features of programs in many other countries lead to comparable problems with the ad valorem...

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Modeling the Impacts of Agricultural Support Policies on Emissions from Agriculture

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

To understand the impacts of support programs on global emissions, this paper considers the impacts of domestic subsidies, price distortions at the border, and investments in emission-reducing technologies on global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full...

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Decentralized Targeting of Agricultural Credit Programs : Private Versus Political Intermediaries

Maitra, Pushkar; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - 2022

We compare two different methods of appointing a local commission agent as an intermediary for a credit program. In the Trader-Agent Intermediated Lending Scheme (TRAIL), the agent was a randomly selected established private trader, while in the Gram Panchayat-Agent Intermediated-Lending Scheme...

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Agricultural Policy, Migration, and Malaria in the 1930s United States

Barreca, Alan I. - 2013

The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) caused a population shift in the United States in the 1930s. Evaluating the effects of the AAA on the incidence of malaria can therefore offer important lessons regarding the broader consequences of demographic changes. Using a quasi-first difference model...

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Hog Round Marketing, Seed Quality, and Government Policy : Institutional Change in U.S. Cotton Production, 1920-1960

Olmstead, Alan L.; Rhode, Paul W. - 2022

Between 1928 and 1960 U.S. cotton production witnessed a revolution with average yields roughly tripling while the quality of the crop increased significantly. This paper analyzes the key institutional and scientific developments that facilitated the revolution in biological technologies,...

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Contracting Out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery : Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2016

which a procurement process was introduced that allowed citizens to bid to take over the implementation of a subsidized rice … reported the quality of the rice improved. Bidding committees may have avoided quality problems by choosing bidders who had …

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A Sticky-Price View of Hoarding

Hansman, Christopher; Hong, Harrison G.; Paula, Áureo de; … - 2021

covering the 2008 global rice crisis—a shock triggered by an Indian rice export ban—we find that household hoarding anticipated …

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Profitability of Fertilizer : Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali

Beaman, Lori - 2013

In an experiment providing fertilizer grants to women rice farmers in Mali, we found that women who received fertilizer …

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The Impact of Rainfall on Rice Output in Indonesia

Levine, David I. - 2014

rainfall shocks on rice output at the district level. Our analysis makes use of local meteorological data on rainfall in … combination with government administrative data on district-level rice output in the 1990s. We find that deviations from mean … local rainfall are positively associated with district-level rice output. 10% higher rainfall leads metric tons of rice …

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Subsidy Policies and Insurance Demand

Cai, Jing - 2016

the optimum subsidy scheme that can insure a given take-up for a new weather insurance for rice producers. We build a …

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