Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 889
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124538
Cover Image
Inconsistent Policy Evaluation : A Case Study for a Large Workfare Program
Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2015
. A case study for India's massive National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme indicates lower impacts on poverty than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025789
Cover Image
Risk, Insurance and Wages in General Equilibrium
Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2014
and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both … the insurance market (which is the current regulatory practice in India and other developing countries), makes wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060688
Cover Image
From Proof of Concept to Scalable Policies : Challenges and Solutions, with an Application
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2016
Pratham's “Teaching at the Right Level” methodology into elementary schools in India. The methodology consists of re …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977613
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002242
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050300
Cover Image
A Sticky-Price View of Hoarding
Hansman, Christopher; Hong, Harrison G.; de Paula, Aureo; … - 2021
covering the 2008 global rice crisis—a shock triggered by an Indian rice export ban—we find that household hoarding anticipated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313019
Cover Image
Economics of Research and Innovation in Agriculture
Moser, Petra - 2021
Feeding the world’s growing population is one of the most critical policy challenges for the 21st century. With tightening constraints on water, arable land, and other natural resources, agricultural innovation is quickly becoming the most promising path meet the nutrient needs for future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309902
Cover Image
Realizing the Gains from Trade : Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty
Balat, Jorge F. - 2010
This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. We claim that the marketing costs that emerge when the commercialization of export crops requires intermediaries can lead to lower participation into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759840
Cover Image
A Theory of Demand Shocks
Lorenzoni, Guido - 2010
This paper presents a model of business cycles driven by shocks to consumer expectations regarding aggregate productivity. Agents are hit by heterogeneous productivity shocks, they observe their own productivity and a noisy public signal regarding aggregate productivity. The shock to this public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760694