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Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity : Lessons from China

Huang, Jikun - 2008

Tariffs on agricultural products fell sharply in China both prior to, and as a consequence of, China's accession to the WTO. The paper examines the nature of agricultural trade reform in China since 1981, and finds that protection was quite strongly negative for most commodities, and...

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The Uruguay Round and Welfare in Some Distorted Agricultural Economies

Anderson, James E. - 1997

There is widespread concern that the Uruguay Round may reduce the welfare of developing countries through its effect on world agricultural prices. Reduced agricultural price distortions among major supplying nations are predicted to increase basic food prices and decrease some important export...

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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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Does Globalization Increase Child Labor? Evidence from Vietnam

Edmonds, Eric - 2002

Vietnam in the 1990s. Greater market integration, at least in this case, appears to be associated with less child labor. Our …

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Heterogeneous Yield Impacts from Adoption of Genetically Engineered Corn and the Importance of Controlling for Weather

Lusk, Jayson L. - 2017

security. While numerous experimental and farm-level studies have found that adoption of genetically engineered crops has been … county-level corn yields from 1980 to 2015 in conjunction with data on adoption of genetically engineered crops, weather, and … genetically engineered crops have increased yields above trend. There is marked heterogeneity in the effect of adoption of …

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Health Care Expenditure and Farm Income Loss : Evidence from Natural Disasters

Chang, Hung-hao; Meyerhoefer, Chad D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Farmers have higher rates of disability and illness than the general population and more volatile incomes due to frequent crop and livestock losses from extreme weather events. This raises concerns that sudden, weather-related drops in farm income could reduce access to health care for an...

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Farm Profits, Prices and Household Behavior

LaFave, Daniel R. - 2020

The farm household model, in which decisions about production and consumption are made simultaneously, lies at the heart of many models of development. Empirically modelling these simultaneous choices is not straightforward. The vast majority of empirical studies assume that farm households...

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Modeling Processor Market Power and the Incidence of Agricultural Policy : A Non-parametric Approach

Goodhue, Rachael E. - 2011

This paper examines interactions between market power and agricultural policy in the U.S. wheat flour milling industry using a non-parametric approach. The analysis focuses on marketing loan and pre-1986 deficiency payment programs; farmers' payments from these programs are dependent on whether...

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The Economic Impacts of Climate Change : Evidence from Agricultural Profits and Random

Deschenes, Olivier - 2004

This paper measures the economic impact of climate change on US agricultural land. We replicate the previous literature's implementation of the hedonic approach and find that it produces estimates of the effect of climate change that are very sensitive to decisions about the appropriate control...

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Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets and Agricultural Production

Fink, Günther - 2018

Many rural households in low and middle income countries continue to rely on small-scale agriculture as their primary source of income. In the absence of irrigation, income arrives only once or twice per year, and has to cover consumption and input needs until the subsequent harvest. We develop...

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