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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013190992
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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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Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets and Agricultural Production
Fink, Günther - 2018
source of income. In the absence of irrigation, income arrives only once or twice per year, and has to cover consumption and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453152
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Estimating the Impact of Crop Diversity on Agricultural Productivity in South Africa
Bellora, Cecilia - 2017
Crop biodiversity has the potential to enhance resistance to strains due to biotic and abiotic factors and to improve crop production and farm revenues. To investigate the effect of crop biodiversity on crop productivity, we build a probabilistic model based on ecological mechanisms to describe...
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Heterogeneous Impact Dynamics of a Rural Business Development Program in Nicaragua
Carter, Michael R. - 2016
We study the impacts of a rural development program designed to boost the income of the smallfarm sector in Nicaragua. Exploiting the random assignment of treatment, we find statistically and economically significant impacts on gross farm income and investment in productive farm capital. Using...
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Financing Smallholder Agriculture : An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India
Maitra, Pushkar - 2014
Recent evaluations of traditional microfinance loans have found no significant impacts on borrower incomes or productive activities. We examine whether this can be remedied by (a) modifying loan features to facilitate financing of working capital needs of farmers, and (b) delegating selection of...
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Producer Beliefs and Conservation : The Impact of Perceived Water Scarcity on Irrigation Technology Adoption
Blumberg, Joey; Goemans, Chris; Manning, Dale - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
examine how a producer's beliefs about water shortages influence investment in more efficient irrigation technologies. We then … a more efficient irrigation technology on average. We also present evidence that adoption rates are driven more by …
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Center Pivot Irrigation Systems as a Form of Drought Risk Mitigation in Humid Regions
Cooley, Daniel J.; Smith, Steven M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Irrigation in the Eastern US receives little attention compared to the West, but farmers in humid states of the US …, traditionally reliant on rainfall, have more than tripled irrigation since 1978. We examine this trend in Illinois where there has … been a nearly threefold increase in center pivot irrigation systems (CPIS) installations since 1988. Specifically, we …
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