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Cooperation in the Commons : Community-based Rangeland Management in Namibia

Coppock, D. Layne; Crowley, Lucas; Durham, Susan L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

management may have been offset by communities' inability to control grazing by non-participating herds and inhibited by an …

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Contract Farming and Rural Transformation : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Benin

Arouna, Aminou - 2019

In recent decades contract farming has emerged as a popular mechanism to encourage vertical coordination in developing country agriculture. The goal of such coordination is to better integrate smallholder farmers into the modern agricultural food system, fostering rural transformation. We use...

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Impact of Rural and Urban Hospital Closures on Inpatient Mortality

Gujral, Kritee - 2019

This paper examines the impact of California's hospital closures occurring from 1995-2011 on adjusted inpatient mortality for time-sensitive conditions: sepsis, stroke, asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Using a difference- in-difference...

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Welfare Work Requirements with Paternalistic Government Preferences

Moffitt, Robert - 2006

Work requirements in means-tested transfer programs have grown in importance in the U.S. and in some other countries. The theoretical literature which considers their possible optimality generally operates within a traditional welfarist framework where some function of the utility of the poor is...

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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2005

provide one of the few reliable sources of income in the countryside. In this paper, we study the economic and social …

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Flip the Switch : The Spatial Impact of the Rural Electrification Administration 1935-1940

Kitchens, Carl - 2013

To isolate the impact of access to electricity on local economies, we examine the impact of the Rural Electrification Administration low-interest loans in the 1930s. The REA provided loans to cooperatives to lay distribution lines to farms and aid in wiring homes. Consequently, the number of...

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Chiefs : Elite Control of Civil Society and Economic Development in Sierra Leone

Acemoglu, Daron - 2013

The lowest level of government in sub-Saharan Africa is often a cadre of chiefs who raise taxes, control the judicial system and allocate the most important scarce resource - land. Chiefs, empowered by colonial indirect rule, are often accused of using their power despotically and inhibiting...

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Growing Apart : Declining Within- and Across-Locality Insurance in Rural China

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Mommaerts, Corina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

-level aggregate income shocks, and show that this decline is related to observable economic changes: the shift from agriculture to …

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Trade policy, income risk, and welfare

Krebs, Tom - 2005

"This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and … three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in … various manufacturing sectors. Second, the estimated income risk parameters and data on trade barriers are used to analyze the …

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Language-Skill Complementarity : Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition

Berman, Eli - 2000

We examine the effect of language acquisition on the growth of immigrants' earnings. We gathered data on recent Soviet immigrants to Israel that include retrospective questions on earnings and language ability on entry into their current job. Language acquisition is found to interact positively...

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