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The Consumption Effects of the Disposition to Sell Winners and Hold Losers
Loos, Benjamin - 2020
We use individual-level data on all security trades, holdings, spending, and income from an online retail bank. We study the effects of an exogenous change in the displayed purchase prices of the mutual funds in individuals' portfolios. We find that individuals are more likely to sell what we...
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Adaptation to Environmental Change : Agriculture and the Unexpected Incidence of the Acid Rain Program
Sanders, Nicholas J.; Barreca, Alan I. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The Acid Rain Program (ARP) cut sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions from power plants in the United States, with considerable benefits. We show this also reduced ambient sulfate levels, which lowered agriculture productivity through decreased soil sulfur. Using plant-level SO2 emissions and an...
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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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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
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Estimating the Effect of Easements on Agricultural Production
Karwowski, Nicole - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
US crops face higher losses as growing season temperatures rise and destructive disasters become commonplace. The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) easement programs offer an adaptation strategy to improve agricultural resilience. Easements impact agricultural production directly by...
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Identifying Supply and Demand Elasticities of Agricultural Commodities : Implications for the US Ethanol Mandate
Roberts, Michael J. - 2010
We present a new framework to identify demand and supply elasticities of agricultural commodities using yield shocks … - deviations from a time trend of output per area, which are predominantly caused by weather fluctuations. Demand is identified … recycled as feed stock for livestock, the predicted price increase scales back to 20 percent. While commodity demand is …
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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 … cost-effective way to improve India's air quality …
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Rationing the Commons
Ryan, Nicholas - 2020
shapes the efficiency and equity of resource use, in the context of agricultural groundwater use in Rajasthan, India. We find …
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Caloric Requirements and Food Consumption Patterns of the Poor
Eli, Shari - 2015
patterns is important, especially for the poor. Combining anthropometric and time-use data for India, we construct a … consumption data to examine how caloric requirements coupled with household expenditures shape food demand. Our applications …
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How Do Voters Respond to Welfare Vis-a-Vis Public Good Programs? Theory and Evidence of Political Clientelism
Bardhan, Pranab K.; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using rural household survey data from West Bengal, we find that voters respond positively to excludable government welfare benefits but not to local public good programs, while reporting having benefited from both. Consistent with these voting patterns, shocks to electoral competition induced...
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