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

Lusk, Jayson L. - 2017

Concern about declining growth in crop yields has renewed debates about the ability of biotechnology to promote food security. While numerous experimental and farm-level studies have found that adoption of genetically engineered crops has been associated with yield gains, aggregate and...

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Heat or Eat? Cold Weather Shocks and Nutrition in Poor American Families

Bhattacharya, Jayanta - 2002

We examine the effects of cold weather periods on family budgets and on nutritional outcomes in poor American families. Expenditures on food and home fuels are tracked by linking the Consumer Expenditure Survey to temperature data. Using the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination...

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Food Insecurity or Poverty? Measuring Need-Related Dietary Adequacy

Bhattacharya, Jayanta - 2002

We examine the extent to which food insecurity questions and the standard poverty measure are correlated with various … related to the diets of children. In contrast, poverty predicts dietary outcomes among preschoolers. Among adults, both … poverty and food insecurity questions are good predictors of many dietary outcomes …

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Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields : The Importance of Nonlinear Temperature Effects

Schlenker, Wolfram - 2008

The United States produces 41% of the world's corn and 38% of the world's soybeans, so any impact on US crop yields will have implications for world food supply. We pair a panel of county-level crop yields in the US with a fine-scale weather data set that incorporates the whole distribution of...

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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …

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Converging to Convergence

Kremer, Michael; Willis, Jack; You, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

, including AK models, poverty trap models, and the concept of convergence conditional on determinants of steady-state income. We …

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Supplemental Social Insurance and the Health of the Poor

Taubman, Paul J. - 1983

In 1974 the federal government instituted Supplemental Social Insurance(SSI). The eligible group was the elderly on welfare and disabled individuals.The program distributed extra income and made people eligible for Medicaid in all states except Arizona which did not have Medicaid. We used...

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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2009

, the poverty trap, the size of the cohort at risk, and migrant stock dynamics. It then projects the life cycle up to 2024 …

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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2007

This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...

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Aid Volatility and Poverty Traps

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2007

modern technology to be used. The possibility of a poverty trap induced by high aid volatility is first examined in a …

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