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Projects, two longitudinal household surveys that examine the role of social networks in influencing attitudes and behavior …
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measures (second jobs, part-time self-employment, and part-time family agriculture) and the probability to have a first or a … produce half of a respondent’s or her household’s income. The birth of a second child was also positively associated with the … fact that a household con-sumed food that was cultivated by the household itself. However, none of these activities was …
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economic growth in some of the world’s poorest countries. Beyond the household, competition for water as a productive resource …
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development of agriculture, evaluates the influence of the state program of agricultural development and regulation of … policies on agriculture using econometric models (PEM-model, AGLINK-KOSIMO). Based on these studies, a system of measures to …
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This paper re-examines the classic demographic or 'real' model, essentially based on a Malthusian-Ricardian model, that the late Michael Postan (Cambridge) utilized to explain the behaviour of the later-medieval western European economy, and in particular the behaviour of price movements. In...
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We exploit regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our results show that the introduction of the...
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given here is that technological progress in agriculture and manufacturing explains these facts. …
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Rural regions are more exposed to rainfall shocks, notably through agriculture, and understanding how local population …
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