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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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Identifying Supply and Demand Elasticities of Agricultural Commodities : Implications for the Us Ethanol Mandate
Roberts, Michael J. - 2015
US ethanol mandate requires that about 5 percent of world caloric production from corn, wheat, rice, and soybeans be used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038890
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Crop Disease and Agricultural Productivity
Carroll, Christine - 2017
Crop diseases and how they are managed can have a large impact on agricultural productivity. This paper discusses the effects on agricultural productivity of Verticillium dahliae, a soil borne fungus that is introduced to the soil via infested spinach seeds and that causes subsequent lettuce...
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048044
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002242
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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
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Arresting Banking Panics : Fed Liquidity Provision and the Forgotten Panic of 1929
Carlson, Mark A. - 2010
twice as high without the Fed's intervention. The policy response of the Fed ended the panic and suggests that similar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137022
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Corn Production Shocks in 2012 and Beyond : Implications for Food Price Volatility
Berry, Steven - 2012
models of county-level corn yields in the Eastern United States by allowing the effect of various weather measures to vary in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096014
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Harvests and Financial Crises in Gold-Standard America
Hanes, Christopher - 2012
Most American financial crises of the postbellum gold-standard era were caused by fluctuations in the cotton harvest due to exogenous factors such as weather. The transmission channel ran through export revenues and financial markets under the pre-1914 monetary regime. A poor cotton harvest...
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Climate Change, Crop Yields, and Internal Migration in the United States
Feng, Shuaizhang - 2013
We investigate the link between agricultural productivity and net migration in the United States using a county-level panel for the most recent period of 1970-2009. In rural counties of the Corn Belt, we find a statistically significant relationship between changes in net outmigration and...
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