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This study explores how aridity (proxied with a measure of soil potential evapotranspiration) impacts agricultural productivity and child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate conditions, crop yield, and infant health measures are collected over approximately 4,000 grid cells of 0.5 x 0.5 in...
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This paper explores the association between short-term migration in the household and feminization of farm management …-term migrant in the household. We model the labor outcomes of women as reflected by their participation as major decision …-makers (main operator) or minor decision makers (associated operator) on the household operational holding. Overall, we find that …
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given here is that technological progress in agriculture and manufacturing explains these facts. This paper is published in …
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By applying a difference-in-differences (DID) analysis to the adoption of maize in China from around the mid-18th century onwards, we find that, like the potato in the Old World, maize accounted for 18% of the population increase in China during 1776-1910. Unlike the potato, however, this crop...
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given here is that technological progress in agriculture and manufacturing explains these facts …
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This study explores how aridity (proxied with a measure of soil potential evapotranspiration) impacts agricultural productivity and child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate conditions, crop yield, and infant health measures are collected over approximately 4,000 grid cells of 0.5 x 0.5 in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013294847
This study explores how aridity (proxied with a measure of soil potential evapotranspiration) impacts agricultural productivity and child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate conditions, crop yield, and infant health measures are collected over approximately 4,000 grid cells of 0.5 x 0.5 in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013294911
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The dissertation focuses on floods in Vietnam and Thailand using a long-time measurement of household welfare, combined …Die Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit Überflutungen in Vietnam und Thailand und nutzt dabei Langzeit-Messungen von … varying flooding intensities on an array of household welfare outcomes in a panel regression setup. The range of the effects …
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financial markets. When I apply the method to rice farming villages in Thailand I find surprisingly little misallocation …
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