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Land Reform and Sex Selection in China
Almond, Douglas - 2013
accounted for roughly half of the increase in sex ratios in rural China from 1978-86, or about 1 million missing girls …
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Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China : Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2004
In this paper, we develop a simple model of international outsourcing and apply it to processing trade in China. We … observe China's processing exports broken down by who owns the plant and by who controls the inputs the plant processes …. Multinational firms engaged in export processing in China tend to split factory ownership and input control with managers in China …
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Changes in Family Structure and Welfare Participation Since the 1960s : The Role of Legal Services
Goodman-Bacon, Andrew - 2019
This paper evaluates the effects of the War on Poverty's Legal Services Program (LSP) on family structure and welfare participation. LSPs provided subsidized legal assistance to poor communities, focusing on divorce and welfare access. We use a difference-in-differences research design based on...
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Economical Crime Control
Cook, Philip J. - 2010
This paper is the introductory chapter for the forthcoming NBER volume Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs. The Great Recession has led to cuts in criminal justice expenditures, and the trend towards ever-higher incarceration rates that has been underway since the 1970s in the U.S....
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The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights : Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier
Alston, Lee J. - 1996
This paper provides new empirical results regarding the demand and supply of title, its impact on land value, and its effects on agricultural investment on Brazilian frontiers. We use survey data from 1992 and 1993 from the state of Par with data on the characteristics of the settlers, land...
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The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics : Evidence from Indonesia
Bazzi, Samuel - 2018
This paper explores the foundations of religious influence in politics and society. We show that an important Islamic institution fostered the entrenchment of Islamism at a critical juncture in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country. In the early 1960s, rural elites transferred large...
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The Incidence of Foreign Market Accessibility on Farmland Rental Rates
Yu, Jisang - 2020
We estimate the impact of the tariffs that U.S. export crops face on farmland rental rates. The estimation of the impact of the localized measure on the rents faces two aggregation problems that lead to identification challenges: a) aggregating tariffs across trading partners to obtain...
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Revisiting the Eswaran-Kotwal Model of Tenancy
Ghatak, Maitreesh; Mookherjee, Dilip - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Persistence of sharecropping tenancy and increases in farm productivity following regulations protecting tenant rights have been observed in many developing countries. This paper examines if these can be explained by alternative models of sharecropping with two sided efforts/investments, namely,...
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Trade and security
Anderson, James E.; Marcouiller, Douglas - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000642959
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Negotiations of Oil and Gas Auxiliary Lease Clauses : Evidence from Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale
Harleman, Max; Manohar, Pramod; Hill, Elaine L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Oil and gas lease negotiations provide mineral owners the opportunity to negotiate for both compensation and auxiliary clauses that may protect their health and properties. We use optical character recognition to assemble a novel dataset of compensation and specific clauses in nearly 60,000...
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