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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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Geography and Agricultural Productivity : Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Plot-Level Data
Adamopoulos, Tasso - 2018
Why is agricultural productivity so low in poor countries relative to the rest of the world? Is it due to geography or constrained economic choices? We assess the quantitative role of geography and land quality for agricultural productivity differences across countries using high-resolution...
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Agricultural Innovation
Wright, Brian D. - 2015
. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039091
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Agricultural Improvements and Access to Rail Transportation : the American Midwest as a Test Case, 1850-1860
Atack, Jeremy - 2015
During the 1850s, land in U.S. farms surged by more than 100 million acres while almost 50 million acres of land were transformed from their raw, natural state into productive farmland. The time and expense of transforming this land into a productive resource represented a significant fraction...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960696
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Wheat or Strawberries? Intermediated Trade with Limited Contracting
Krishna, Kala - 2014
Why do developing countries fail to specialize in products in which they appear to have a comparative advantage? We propose a model of agricultural trade with intermediation that explains how hold-up resulting from poor contracting environments can produce such an outcome. We use the model to...
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Nutritional Status and Agricultural Surpluses in the Antebellum United States
Craig, Lee A.; Weiss, Thomas - 2021
We model the relationship between local agricultural surpluses, nutritional status, and height, and we test the hypothesis that adult height is positively correlated with the local production of nutrition in infancy. We test the hypothesis on two samples of Union Army recruits - one consisting...
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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 … the United States towards agriculturally important middle-income countries, especially China, India and Brazil. U …
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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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The Life Cycle of Plants in India and Mexico
Klenow, Peter J. - 2014
intermediate to India and the U.S. in these respects: the average 40 year old Mexican plant employs twice as many workers as an … aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066002