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Productivity, Mortality, and Technology in European and US Coal Mining, 1800-1913
Silvestre, Javier - 2021
European coal production underwent a period of dramatic increase from the early nineteenth century to 1913. A consensus exists, however, for a depiction of the coal industry as, to a high degree, technologically stagnant throughout the long nineteenth century. Macro-inventions, or general...
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Assessing Climate Change Impacts: Agriculture
Bosello, Francesco; Zhang, Jian - 2005
The economy-wide implications of climate change on agricultural sectors in 2050 are estimated using a static computable general equilibrium model. Peculiar to this exercise is the coupling of the economic model with a climatic model forecasting temperature increase in the relevant year and with...
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Agrardiesel-Subventionen: Eine Einordnung
Brümmer, Bernhard - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 104 (2024) 1, pp. 5
Nun roll(t)en sie wieder - so könnte man die Situation Anfang Januar 2024 beschreiben, als die Landwirtschaft mit … überproportionale Belastung der Landwirtschaft durch die Kürzungsvorschläge dahinter? Es scheint sinnvoll, zunächst die Größenordnung …
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Population Growth and Forest Sustainability in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Jingwa, Brian - 2011
Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three...
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Deforestation and Welfare: Evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...
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Agriculture, Transportation and the Timing of Urbanization: Global Analysis at the Grid Cell Level
Motamed, Mesbah J.; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Masters, … - 2014
This paper addresses the timing of a location's historical transition from rural to urban activity. We test whether urbanization occurs sooner in places with higher agricultural potential and comparatively lower transport costs, using worldwide data that divide the earth's surface at half-degree...
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Technological change and inequality in the very long run
Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Strulik, Holger - 2020
agriculture, and provide evidence for technology-driven inequality in Britain between 1525 and 1895. We confirm these results for …
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Irrigation and Culture: Gender Roles and Women’s Rights
Fredriksson, Per G.; Gupta, Satyendra Kumar - 2020
relative productivity. Fertility increased. This caused lower female participation in agriculture and subsistence activities …, and the women worked closer to home. Next, due to the common pool nature of irrigation water, historically irrigation has … involved more frequent warfare. This raised the social status of men and restricted women's movement. These two mechanisms have …
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Agriculture, diffusion, and development: Ripple effects of the neolithic revolution
Putterman, Louis - 2006
Are the Neolithic revolution’s effects still impacting incomes across the world today? I find strong support for this proposition using new, country-specific estimates of the timing of agricultural transition. While support with my data is slightly weaker than with the coarser data of Hibbs...
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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
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