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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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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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State-Owned Enterprises, Shirking and Trade Liberalization
Ghosh, Madanmohan - 2000
effects on imports can also occur. These models when calibrated to 1995 data for Vietnam also suggest quantitatively much …
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Military Service and Public Sector Employment : Birthdates Called in the Vietnam Draft Lotteries Appear Excessively in the Population of Civilian U.S. Federal Personnel Records
Johnson, Tim - 2019
induction in the Vietnam-Era Selective Service Lotteries (VSSL) appear disproportionately in the population of non …
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The Intergenerational Effects of the Vietnam Draft on Risky Behaviors
Deza, Monica - 2020
We exploit the natural experiment provided by the Vietnam lottery draft to evaluate the intergenerational effect of …
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Vocational Education, Manufacturing, and Income Distribution : International Evidence and Case Studies
Aizenman, Joshua - 2017
of Vietnam in comparison to Thailand, as well as government subsidies for reskilling of labour fource throughout their …
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Technology and Resilience
Comin, Diego; Cruz, Marcio José Vargas da; Cirera, Xavier - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
stages of the pandemic. We exploit a unique data covering firms from Brazil, Senegal, and Vietnam using a treatment effect …
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The Long-Term Effects of Military Conscription on Mortality : Estimates from the Vietnam-era Draft Lottery
Conley, Dalton - 2009
Research on the effects of Vietnam military service suggests that Vietnam veterans experienced significantly higher … mortality than both non-Vietnam veterans and the civilian population at large. These results, however, may be biased by non …. The present study generates unbiased estimates of the causal impact of Vietnam era draft eligibility on male mortality …
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Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2009
claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about costs as well as health. We use the draft lottery to study the long …-term effects of Vietnam-era military service on health and work in the 2000 Census. These estimates show no significant overall … increase in non-work-related disability rates. The differential impact of Vietnam-era service on low-skill men cannot be …
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