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Expanding the School Breakfast Program : Impacts on Children's Consumption, Nutrition and Health

Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore - 2014

School meals programs are the front line of defense against childhood hunger, and while the school lunch program is nearly universally available in U.S. public schools, the school breakfast program has lagged behind in terms of availability and participation. In this paper we use experimental...

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Does Mass Deworming Affect Child Nutrition? Meta-analysis, Cost-Effectiveness, and Statistical Power

Croke, Kevin - 2016

The WHO has recently debated whether to reaffirm its long-standing recommendation of mass drug administration (MDA) in areas with more than 20% prevalence of soil-transmitted helminths (hookworm, whipworm, and roundworm). There is consensus that the relevant deworming drugs are safe and...

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Flip the Switch : The Spatial Impact of the Rural Electrification Administration 1935-1940

Kitchens, Carl - 2013

To isolate the impact of access to electricity on local economies, we examine the impact of the Rural Electrification Administration low-interest loans in the 1930s. The REA provided loans to cooperatives to lay distribution lines to farms and aid in wiring homes. Consequently, the number of...

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Local Effects of Land Grant Colleges on Agricultural Innovation and Output

Andrews, Michael J. - 2019

To estimate the local effect of establishing land grant colleges, I compare locations that receive a land grant college to "runner-up" counties that were in contention to receive the land grant but did not for as-good-as-random reasons. I find that establishing a land grant college causes an...

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Modeling the Impacts of Agricultural Support Policies on Emissions from Agriculture

Laborde, David - 2020

) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full evaluation of the impacts, it uses a counterfactual global model scenario … that currently tax agriculture have high emission intensities. Policies that directly reduce emission intensities yield … designing policy reforms that effectively reduce emissions without jeopardizing other key goals such as improving nutrition and …

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Two Blades of Grass : The Impact of the Green Revolution

Gollin, Douglas - 2018

We examine the economic impact of high-yielding crop varieties (HYVs) in developing countries 1960-2000. We use time variation in the development and diffusion of HYVs of 10 major crops, spatial variation in agro-climatically suitability for growing them, and a differences-in-differences...

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Agricultural Trade Reform, Reallocation and Technical Change : Evidence from the Canadian Prairies

Brown, Mark - 2017

We decompose the impact of trade reform on technology adoption and land use to study how aggregate changes were driven by reallocation versus within-farm adaptation. Using detailed census data covering over 30,000 farms in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada we find a range of new...

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The Economic Impacts of Climate Change : Evidence from Agricultural Profits and Random

Deschenes, Olivier - 2004

This paper measures the economic impact of climate change on US agricultural land. We replicate the previous literature's implementation of the hedonic approach and find that it produces estimates of the effect of climate change that are very sensitive to decisions about the appropriate control...

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Tax Farming Redux : Experimental Evidence on Performance Pay for Tax Collectors

Khan, Adnan Q. - 2014

Performance pay for tax collectors has the potential to raise revenues, but might come at a cost if taxpayers face undue pressure from collectors. We report the first large-scale field experiment on these issues, where we experimentally allocated 482 property tax units in Punjab, Pakistan into...

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Finance, farms, and the Fed's early years

Carlin, Bruce - 2017

hand-collected data on banking and agriculture in Illinois in the early 20th century. The mechanism for the Fed's effect on … agriculture was a bank credit channel, operating independently of any deflationary effect on money supply. Our findings suggest …

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