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Impacts of Climate Change and Extreme Weather on U.S. Agricultural Productivity : Evidence and Projection
Wang, Sun Ling - 2017
This paper employs a stochastic frontier approach to examine how climate change and extreme weather affect U ….S. agricultural productivity using 1940-1970 historical weather data (mean and variation) as the norm. We have four major findings …. Fourth, we project potential impacts of climate change and extreme weather on U.S. regional productivity based on the …
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Adaptation and the Mortality Effects of Temperature Across U.S. Climate Regions
Heutel, Garth - 2017
We estimate how the mortality effects of temperature vary across U.S. climate regions to assess local and national damages from projected climate change. Using 22 years of Medicare data, we find that both cold and hot days increase mortality. However, hot days are less deadly in warm places...
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Does the Environment Still Matter? Daily Temperature and Income in the United States
Deryugina, Tatyana - 2014
. Using within-county variation in weather, we estimate the effect of daily temperature on annual income in United States …
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Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States
Landon-Lane, John S. - 2013
The relationships among the weather, agricultural markets, and financial markets have long been of interest to economic …
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The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2016
Does a person's historical lineage influence his or her current economic status? Motivated by a large literature in social sciences stressing the effect of an early transition to agriculture on current economic performance at the level of countries, we examine the relative contemporary status of...
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Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics : On the Roles of Risk and Ability
Santos, Paulo - 2016
This paper studies the causal mechanisms behind persistent poverty. Using original data on Boran pastoralists of southern Ethiopia, we find that heterogeneous and nonlinear wealth dynamics arise purely in adverse states of nature. In favorable states, expected herd grow is quasi-linear and...
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Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa
McGuirk, Eoin; Nunn, Nathan - 2022
We consider the effects of climate change on seasonally migrant populations that herd livestock – i.e., transhumant pastoralists – in Africa. Traditionally, transhumant pastoralists benefit from a cooperative relationship with sedentary agriculturalists whereby arable land is used for crop...
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Supply and Effects of Specialty Crop Insurance
Ligon, Ethan A. - 2011
The federal government has developed a large number of programs to insure various "specialty crops" over the last two decades; a given program is peculiar to a particular county and crop. This development has been particularly notable in California, because of its size and the diversity of crops...
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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
Karlan, Dean S. - 2014
The investment decisions of small‐scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana...
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Microinsurance, Trust and Economic Development : Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment
Cai, Hongbin - 2010
We report results from a large randomized natural field experiment conducted in southwestern China in the context of insurance for sows. Our study sheds light on two important questions about microinsurance. First, how does access to formal insurance affect farmers' production decisions? Second,...
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