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 …

This paper reviews the recent problems of the opening of Japan's rice market and evaluates the Japanese government …'s rice policy from both an economic and political viewpoint. The Japanese government made strenuous resistance to the opening … of Japan's rice market during the negotiations on agricultural trade at the GATT Uruguay Round. Eventually Japan's rice …

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

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

, or the price of rice. Low Country slave prices were well above those in the West Indies and Maryland prior to the 1740s …

slave price series indicates that the price of rice was the major determinant of the demand for slaves and in turn largely … yields in rice production over the eighteenth century and the sources of wealth accumulation in South Carolina …