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Agness, Daniel; Baseler, Travis; Chassang, Sylvain; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

People's value for their own time is a key input in evaluating public policies: evaluations should account for time taken away from work or leisure as a result of policy. Using rich choice data collected from farming households in western Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive...

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On the Informativeness of Descriptive Statistics for Structural Estimates

Andrews, Isaiah - 2018

We propose a way to formalize the relationship between descriptive analysis and structural estimation. A researcher reports an estimate ĉ of a structural quantity of interest c that is valid under some models. The researcher also reports descriptive statistics γ̂ that estimate features γ of...

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Yield Performance of Corn under Heat Stress : A Comparison of Hybrid and Open-Pollinated Seeds during a Period of Technological Transformation, 1933-1955

Meyers, Keith - 2020

Starting in the 1930s, commercial hybrid corn seeds rapidly replaced the once predominant open-pollinated varieties planted by farmers. By the mid-1950s almost all corn grown in the United States was of hybrid varieties. Observers have argued that the drought tolerant qualities of these hybrids...

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Risk Response in Agriculture

LaFrance, Jeffrey - 2011

Crop production is subject to supply shocks, and both expected and realized outputs as well as output prices are unknown when inputs are chosen. The process by which producers form expectations is difficult to model, especially when working with aggregate data. We present a necessary and...

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Supply and Effects of Specialty Crop Insurance

Ligon, Ethan - 2011

If the extension of federal crop insurance programs to cover fruit and vegetable production has affected either producer or consumer welfare, then we would expect to see this reflected in output and prices. Exploiting variation in the timing of program introduction in different locations for...

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Economies of Density versus Natural Advantage : Crop Choice on the Back Forty

Holmes, Thomas J. - 2009

We estimate the factors determining specialization of crop choice at the level of individual fields, distinguishing between the role of natural advantage (soil characteristics) and economies of density (scale economies achieved when farmers plant neighboring fields with the same crop). Using...

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Money (Not) to Burn : Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning

Jack, B. Kelsey; Jayachandran, Seema; Kala, Namrata; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Particulate matter significantly reduces life expectancy in India. We use a randomized controlled trial in the Indian state of Punjab to evaluate the effectiveness of conditional cash transfers (also known as payments for ecosystem services, or PES) in reducing crop residue burning, which is a...

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The Structure and Conduct of Corporate Lobbying : How Firms Lobby the Federal Communications Commission

de Figueiredo, John M. - 2000

lobbying (internal organization vs. trade association) by firms in administrative agencies. It explores the power and limitations of the collective action theories and transaction cost theories in explaining lobbying. It introduces a dataset of over 900 lobbying contacts cover 101 issues at the...

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Participation in Heterogeneous Communities

Alesina, Alberto - 1999

This paper studies both theoretically and empirically the determinants of group formation and of the degree of participation when the population is heterogeneous, both in terms of income and race or ethnicity. We are especially interested in whether and how much the degree of heterogeneity in...

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Group Corruption via Sequential Bargaining in a Hierarchical Organization

Kung, Fan-chin; Wang, Ping; Wen, Quan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

decision-makers in a hierarchical organization. We examine the role played by the architecture of a multi-tier authority and … bargaining sequence proceeds as a chain through decision-making agents, regardless of the hierarchy of the organization. We prove … the existence of a compromised equilibrium, where the decision of the authority is compromised, and establish sufficient …

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