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The Impact of Rainfall on Rice Output in Indonesia
Levine, David I. - 2014
We estimate the impact of weather variation on agricultural output in Indonesia by examining the impact of local 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...
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Innovation, Growth and Structural Change in American Agriculture
Andersen, Matt A.; Pardey, Philip G. - 2022
U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today’s agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms are much larger and more specialized, supplying a...
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Filling a Niche? The Maize Productivity Impacts of Adaptive Breeding by a Local Seed Company in Kenya
Bird, Samuel S.; Carter, Michael; Lybbert, Travis J.; … - 2022
This paper explores the idea that competitive seed systems may underserve farmers in small, agro-ecological niches … and supply factors that can result in such an equilibrium. We then empirically study the disruption of the maize seed … allowed a local seed company to expand and target the area with adaptively-bred maize varieties. A three-year RCT reveals that …
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Up in Smoke : the Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
Hanna, Rema - 2012
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves. This belief is largely supported by observational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107019
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Profitability of Fertilizer : Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali
Beaman, Lori A. - 2013
In an experiment providing fertilizer grants to women rice farmers in Mali, we found that women who received fertilizer increased both the quantity of fertilizer they used on their plots and complementary inputs such as herbicides and hired labor. This highlights that farmers respond to an...
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Subsidy Policies and Insurance Demand
Cai, Jing - 2016
Many new products presumed to be privately beneficial to the poor have a high price elasticity of demand and ultimately zero take-up rate at market price. This has led governments and donors to provide subsidies to increase take-up, with the concern of trying to limit their cost. In this study,...
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Slave Prices in the Lower South, 1722-1815
Mancall, Peter C.; Rosenbloom, Joshua L.; Weiss, Thomas - 2021
Using data from samples of probate inventories we construct a series of slave prices for Low Country South Carolina and Georgia covering the period 1722-1815. Using these data we examine variations in slave prices by age and sex, as well as geographic variations between and within the two...
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South Carolina Slave Prices, 1722-1809
Mancall, Peter C.; Rosenbloom, Joshua L.; Weiss, Thomas - 2021
Based on data from several samples of probate inventories we construct and analyze a time series of slave prices for South Carolina from 1722 to 1809. These estimates reveal that prices fluctuated without trend prior to the 1760s and then began to rise rapidly, more than doubling by the early...
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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
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When the Levee Breaks : Black Migration and Economic Development in the American South
Hornbeck, Richard - 2012
In the American South, post-bellum economic stagnation has been partially attributed to white landowners' access to low-wage black labor; indeed, Southern economic convergence from 1940 to 1970 was associated with substantial black out-migration. This paper examines the impact of the Great...
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