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Globalization and International Commodity Trade with Specific Reference to the West African Cocoa Producers

Gilbert, Christopher L. - 2003

in lower world prices. Farmers therefore get a higher share of a lower price. Cocoa is the market where these changes … world rather than domestic prices. Producer prices have tended to rise as a share of fob prices as intermediation costs and … have been most pronounced. The incidence of the liberalization benefits in cocoa is largely on developed country consumers …

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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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Global Benefits of Marine Protected Areas

Rising, James - 2014

Case studies suggest that Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) can be effective tools for fishery management. This study uses global datasets of MPAs and stock assessments to estimate the strength and robustness of their benefits. We apply multiple models, including a treatment-control pairing, a...

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Institutions and Global Crop Yields

Wuepper, David; Wang, Haoyu; Schlenker, Wolfram; Jain, Meha - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate annual discontinuities in remotely-sensed crop yields at all international land borders and link them to changes in the economic freedom index by the Fraser Institute, a country-level measure of institutional quality. Each point of the ten-point index increases the discontinuity by...

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External Validity in a Stochastic World

Rosenzweig, Mark - 2016

We examine the generalizability of internally valid estimates of causal effects in a fixed population over time when that population is subject to aggregate shocks. This temporal external validity is shown to depend upon the distribution of the aggregate shocks and the interaction between these...

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The Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene, and the Escape from Premature Mortality

Costa, Dora L.; Bygren, Lars Olov; Graf, Benedikt; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Explanations for the West's escape from premature mortality have focused on chronic malnutrition or income and on public health or state capacity. We argue that by ignoring the multigenerational effects of variance in ancestors' harvests, we are underestimating the contribution of modern...

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Child Labor, Crop Shocks, and Credit Constraints

Beegle, Kathleen - 2003

This paper examines the relationship between household income shocks and child labor. In particular, we investigate the extent to which transitory income shocks lead to increases in child labor and whether household access to credit mitigates the effects of these shocks. Using panel data from a...

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Agro-Ecosystem Productivity and the Dynamic Response to Shocks

Chavas, Jean-Paul - 2016

This paper investigates the nonlinear dynamic response to shocks, relying on a threshold quantile autoregression (TQAR) model as a flexible representation of stochastic dynamics. The TQAR model can identify zones of stability/instability and characterize resilience and traps. Resilience means...

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Corn Production Shocks in 2012 and Beyond : Implications for Food Price Volatility

Berry, Steven T. - 2012

produces roughly 40% of the world's corn. A heat wave in July adversely affected corn production. We extend earlier statistical …

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Harvests and Financial Crises in Gold-Standard America

Hanes, Christopher - 2012

Most American financial crises of the postbellum gold-standard era were caused by fluctuations in the cotton harvest due to exogenous factors such as weather. The transmission channel ran through export revenues and financial markets under the pre-1914 monetary regime. A poor cotton harvest...

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