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New Goods and the Transition to a New Economy

Greenwood, Jeremy - 2004

worked in agriculture. Barely anyone did by 2000. What caused the rapid demise of agriculture in the economy? The analysis …

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Sequencing and Welfare : Labor Markets and Agriculture

Edwards, Sebastian - 1992

Recent discussions on structural adjustment and market-oriented reforms in developing and Eastern European nations have addressed the issue of the appropriate sequencing of these reforms. Most of the traditional work on the subject has concluded that the preferred sequencing should include, as a...

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

Heerman, Kari E.R. - 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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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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Learning Through Noticing : Theory and Experimental Evidence in Farming

Hanna, Rema - 2012

Existing learning models attribute failures to learn to a lack of data. We model a different barrier. Given the large number of dimensions one could focus on when using a technology, people may fail to learn because they failed to notice important features of the data they possess. We conduct a...

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The Macroeconomics of Intensive Agriculture

Boppart, Timo; Kiernan, Patrick; Krusell, Per; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Developing countries employ a very large share of their workforce in agriculture, a sector in which their labor … productivity is particularly low. We take a macroeconomic approach to analyze the role of agriculture in development. We construct … dramatically relative to labor prices; concurrently, capital and intermediate input use in agriculture increases by a factor of 300 …

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Coarse Thinking and Persuasion

Mullainathan, Sendhil - 2006

We present a model of coarse thinking, in which individuals group situations into categories, and transfer the informational content of a given message from situations in a category where it is useful to those where it is not. The model explains how uninformative messages can be persuasive,...

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Capitalizing Patriotism : The Liberty Loans of World War I

Kang, Sung Won - 2006

In World War I the Secretary of the Treasury, William Gibbs McAdoo, hoped to create a broad market for government bonds, the famous Liberty Loans, by following an aggressive policy of "capitalizing patriotism." He called on everyone from Wall Street bankers to the Boy Scouts to volunteer for the...

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Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity

Chou, Shin-Yi - 2005

Childhood obesity around the world, and particularly in the United States, is an escalating problem that is especially detrimental as its effects carry on into adulthood. In this paper we employ the 1979 Child-Young Adult National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the 1997 National Longitudinal...

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Unshrouding Effects on Demand for a Costly Add-on : Evidence from Bank Overdrafts in Turkey

Alan, Sule - 2015

Turkish bank to test SMS direct marketing promotions to 108,000 existing holders of "free" checking accounts, we find that …

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