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Estimating the Impact of Crop Diversity on Agricultural Productivity in South Africa
Bellora, Cecilia - 2017
Crop biodiversity has the potential to enhance resistance to strains due to biotic and abiotic factors and to improve crop production and farm revenues. To investigate the effect of crop biodiversity on crop productivity, we build a probabilistic model based on ecological mechanisms to describe...
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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...
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The Consumption Effects of the Disposition to Sell Winners and Hold Losers
Loos, Benjamin; Meyer, Steffen; Pagel, Michaela - 2022
We use individual-level data on all security trades, holdings, spending, and income from an online retail bank. We study the effects of an exogenous change in the displayed purchase prices of the mutual funds in individuals’ portfolios. We find that individuals are more likely to sell what we...
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Identifying Supply and Demand Elasticities of Agricultural Commodities : Implications for the Us Ethanol Mandate
Roberts, Michael J. - 2015
We present a new framework to identify demand and supply elasticities of agricultural commodities using yield shocks … - deviations from a time trend of output per area, which are predominantly caused by weather fluctuations. Demand is identified … recycled as feed stock for livestock, the predicted price increase scales back to 20 percent. While commodity demand is …
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Rationing the Commons
Ryan, Nicholas; Sudarshan, Anant - 2022
shapes the efficiency and equity of resource use, in the context of agricultural groundwater use in Rajasthan, India. We find …
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Caloric Requirements and Food Consumption Patterns of the Poor
Eli, Shari - 2015
patterns is important, especially for the poor. Combining anthropometric and time-use data for India, we construct a … consumption data to examine how caloric requirements coupled with household expenditures shape food demand. Our applications …
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Risk Response in Agriculture
LaFrance, Jeffrey - 2011
demand equations to be specified as functions of input prices, quasi-fixed inputs, and total variable cost. These all are …
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Supply and Effects of Specialty Crop Insurance
Ligon, Ethan A. - 2011
demand for insurance for tree crops is much larger than for non-tree crops. Crop insurance has a small but significant … negative effect on prices of insured crops. This last finding is consistent with the view that demand for such highly …
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Risk Response in Agriculture
LaFrance, Jeffrey - 2014
demand equations to be specified as functions of input prices, quasi-fixed inputs, and total variable cost. These all are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067593
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Economies of Density Versus Natural Advantage : Crop Choice on the Back Forty
Holmes, Thomas J.; Lee, Sanghoon - 2021
We estimate the factors determining specialization of crop choice at the level of individual fields, distinguishing between the role of natural advantage (soil characteristics) and economies of density (scale economies achieved when farmers plant neighboring fields with the same crop). Using...
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