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The Unintended Impacts of Agricultural Fires : Human Capital in China

Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2019

The practice of burning agricultural waste is ubiquitous around the world, yet the external human capital costs from those fires have been underexplored. Using data from the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) and agricultural fires detected by high-resolution satellites in China during...

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Business Cycle During Structural Change : Arthur Lewis' Theory from a Neoclassical Perspective

Storesletten, Kjetil - 2019

agriculture declines while labor productivity increases in agriculture more than in other sectors. We construct a unified theory … simultaneous decline and modernization of agriculture. As capital accumulates, agriculture becomes increasingly capital intensive … as modern agriculture crowds out traditional agriculture. Structural change accelerates in booms and slows down in …

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Heterogeneity, Measurement Error and Misallocation : Evidence from African Agriculture

Gollin, Douglas - 2019

Standard measures of productivity display enormous dispersion across farms in Africa. Crop yields and input intensities appear to vary greatly, seemingly in conflict with a model of efficient allocation across farms. In this paper, we present a theoretical framework for distinguishing between...

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The Biophysical and Economic Geographies of Global Climate Impacts on Agriculture

Baldos, Uris - 2018

agriculture. It does so by bridging the extensive literature on climate impacts on yields and physical productivity in global crop …

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Gravity and Comparative Advantage : Estimation of Trade Elasticities for the Agricultural Sector

Heerman, Kari - 2018

In this paper, a structural gravity model is presented which features intra-sector heterogeneity in agricultural productivity systematically linked to land and climate characteristics. The “systematic heterogeneity” (SH) gravity model predicts that countries with similar land and climate...

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Two Blades of Grass : The Impact of the Green Revolution

Gollin, Douglas - 2018

We examine the economic impact of high-yielding crop varieties (HYVs) in developing countries 1960-2000. We use time variation in the development and diffusion of HYVs of 10 major crops, spatial variation in agro-climatically suitability for growing them, and a differences-in-differences...

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Does the Samaritan's Dilemma Matter? Evidence from U.S. Agriculture

Deryugina, Tatyana - 2016

.S. agriculture, where both private crop insurance and frequent federal disaster assistance are present. We find that bailout …

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Did Inequality in Farm Sizes Lead to Suppression of Banking and Credit in the Late Nineteenth Century?

Jaremski, Matthew - 2017

This paper creates a new database that covers all banks in the United States in the census years between 1870 and 1900 to test the interaction between inequality and financial development when the banking system was starting over from scratch. A fixed-effects panel regression shows that the...

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Reevaluating Agricultural Productivity Gaps with Longitudinal Microdata

Hicks, Joan - 2017

Recent research has pointed to large gaps in labor productivity between the agricultural and nonagricultural sectors in low-income countries, as well as between workers in rural and urban areas. Most estimates are based on national accounts or repeated cross-sections of micro-survey data, and as...

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Agricultural Diversity, Structural Change and Long-Run Development : Evidence from the U.S

Fiszbein, Martin - 2017

This paper examines the role of agricultural diversity in the process of development. Using data from U.S. counties and exploiting climate-induced variation in agricultural production patterns, I show that mid-19th century agricultural diversity had positive long-run effects on population...

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