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This thesis focuses on testing whether land fragmentation in China has an impact on off-farm labor supply by utilizing a data set developed between 1995-2002 for the Zhejiang, Hubei and Yunnan Provinces of China. Adopting the institutional innovation theory and a microeconomic farm household...
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"The United States produces 41% of the world's corn and 38% of the world's soybeans, so any impact on US crop yields … will have implications for world food supply. We pair a panel of county-level crop yields in the US with a fine …
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The United States produces 41% of the world's corn and 38% of the world's soybeans, so any impact on US crop yields … will have implications for world food supply. We pair a panel of county-level crop yields in the US with a fine …
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The United States produces 41% of the world's corn and 38% of the world's soybeans, so any impact on US crop yields … will have implications for world food supply. We pair a panel of county-level crop yields in the US with a fine …
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agriculture. With mounting evidence that climate is warming, we show that such warming will have substantial impacts on …
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areas of India, and that farmers respond more strongly to the forecast where there is more forecast skill and not at all … when there is no skill. We show, using an IV strategy in which the Indian government forecast of monsoon rainfall serves as … compared with farmers without access to forecasts. Even modest improvements in forecast skill would substantially increase …
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Since the beginning of transition, the level and structure of average food consumption and expenditure of Russian households has changed substantially. This development has gone together with a steep increase in the share of food in total expenditure. Notable differences with respect to food...
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