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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income and Civil Conflict in Colombia
Angrist, Joshua; Kugler, Adriana D. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. On the other hand, these resources may also provide one of the few reliable sources of income in the...
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Intermediaries, transport costs and interlinked transactions
Lefèvre, Mélanie; Tharakan, Joe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Transport costs play a key role in agricultural markets in developing countries and are one of the causes of poverty amongst farmers that are geographically isolated. Another characteristic of agricultural markets is that they often involve interlinked transactions. However, the existing...
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Juvenile Unemployment in Interwar Britain: The Emergence of a Problem
Eichengreen, Barry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
During the 1980s youth unemployment rates have persistently exceeded unemployment rates for adults, in Britain as in … other OECD countries. In the interwar period, youth unemployment rates in Britain were dramatically lower than those for … industrial composition of employment, and economy-wide changes in the share of juveniles employed (due to changes in youth …
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EU Trade Barriers in the Agri-food Sector: When Protection Breeds Dependence
Cadot, Olivier; Gallezot, Jacques; Suwa Eisenmann, Akiko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper looks for firm-level evidence that high rates of protection breed concentration of firm activities into highly protected sectors, endogenously generating vested interests in the maintenance of protection. We combine data on the EU’s trade protection for food and agricultural...
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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
Karlan, Dean S.; Osei, Robert; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The salient constraint …
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Self-Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean S.; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
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Do Oil Price Increases Cause Higher Food Prices?
Baumeister, Christiane; Kilian, Lutz - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
U.S. retail food price increases in recent years may seem large in nominal terms, but after adjusting for inflation have been quite modest even after the change in U.S. biofuel policies in 2006. In contrast, increases in the real prices of corn, soybeans, wheat and rice received by U.S. farmers...
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The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment
Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
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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Lobbying and Agricultural Trade Policy in the United States
Gawande, Kishore; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
losses from distortionary policy in agriculture. We show that the puzzle can be resolved by extending the model to allow …
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