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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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the impact of phone-based monitoring on a program that transferred nearly a billion dollars to 5.7 million Indian farmers … beneficiaries. This led to a 7.6% reduction in the number of farmers who did not receive their transfers. The program was highly …
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This paper explores the idea that competitive seed systems may underserve farmers in small, agro-ecological niches …, leaving those farmers less productive and poorer than they need be. We develop a theoretical model of the confluence of demand … these seed varieties increased farmer yields and revenues, both for better-resourced farmers (who used non-adapted hybrids …
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decline. Crop prices collapsed, reducing farmers' incomes. And across U.S. states and Ohio counties, auto sales fell most in … crop-growing areas. The large spending response may be explained by farmers' indebtedness. Reasonable assumptions about the … marginal propensity to spend of farmers relative to nonfarmers and the pass-through of farm prices to retail prices imply that …
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We use metro-level variation in land and structural input prices to test and estimate a housing cost function with differences in local housing productivity. Both OLS and IV estimates imply that stringent regulatory and geographic restrictions substantially increase housing prices relative to...
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demands are central to much of the motivation for exclusionary zoning, we expand the theoretical analysis to encompass the …
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Victory in the War for Independence brought a vast amount of land within the grasp of the new American nation -- territory stretching from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River between the southern shores of the Great Lakes and Spanish Florida. These lands were initially claimed by...
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Many communities are concerned about the reuse of potentially contaminated land ("brownfields") and believe that environmental liability is a hindrance to redevelopment. However, with land price adjustments, liability might not impede the reuse of this land. Existing literature has found price...
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We develop theory and present a suite of theoretically consistent empirical measures to explore the extent to which market intervention inadvertently alters resource allocation in a sequentialmove principal/agent game. We showcase our approach empirically by exploring the extent to which the...
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This paper examines the economics of large scale institutional change by studying the adoption of the land demarcation practices within the British Empire during the 17th through 19th Centuries. The advantages of systematic, coordinated demarcation, such as with the rectangular survey, relative...
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