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The Depressing Effect of Agricultural Institutions on the Prewar Japanese Economy
Hayashi, Fumio - 2006
stay in agriculture …
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Moving out of Agriculture : Structural Change in Vietnam
McCaig, Brian - 2013
discuss the role of reforms in agriculture, enterprises, and international integration in this process. In addition to the … drastic move of employment away from agriculture toward services and manufacturing, we also document the movement of workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459045
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Daily Cross-Border Equity Flows : Pushed or Pulled?
Griffin, John M. - 2002
In a model that is consistent with the existence of a home bias and with foreign investors that are less informed than domestic investors, we show that unexpectedly high worldwide returns lead to net equity inflows into small countries. In addition, a small country experiences net equity inflows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469714
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Farm productivity and market structure : evidence from cotton reforms in Zambia
Brambilla, Irene - 2005
"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty alleviation, in rural Zambia. The reforms comprised the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board that was in place since 1977. Following liberalization, the sector adopted an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522398
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Energy, Groundwater, and Crop Choice
Burlig, Fiona; Preonas, Louis; Woerman, Matt - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Groundwater is a key resource for agricultural production globally. Increasingly rapid aquifer drawdowns--as well as the policies intended to increase their sustainability--increase costs to agricultural producers, with unknown consequences. This paper provides the first large-scale empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510584
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Business Cycle during Structural Change : Arthur Lewis' Theory from a Neoclassical Perspective
Storesletten, Kjetil - 2019
agriculture declines while labor productivity increases in agriculture more than in other sectors. We construct a unified theory … simultaneous decline and modernization of agriculture. As capital accumulates, agriculture becomes increasingly capital intensive … as modern agriculture crowds out traditional agriculture. Structural change accelerates in booms and slows down in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480126
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The Food Problem and the Aggregate Productivity Consequences of Climate Change
Nath, Ishan B. - 2020
heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to … perversely pulls labor into agriculture where its productivity suffers most and reallocation exacerbates the global decline in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481491
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The Biophysical and Economic Geographies of Global Climate Impacts on Agriculture
Baldos, Uris - 2018
agriculture. It does so by bridging the extensive literature on climate impacts on yields and physical productivity in global crop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452942
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452949
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External Validity in a Stochastic World
Rosenzweig, Mark - 2016
in agriculture, small and medium enterprises and human capital differ significantly from year to year. We also show how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456228