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emergence and severity of actual violence through the effect on food availability, captured by rice crops per capita. The link … between increase in minimum temperature and rice crops is suggested by natural science literature. We use Indonesia as a case … planting season", i.e. December, determines an increase in violence fuelled by the reduction in future rice production per …
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The potentially adverse effects of droughts on agricultural output are obvious. Indonesian rice farmers have no … for droughts for rice production in Indonesia. To reduce basis risk, we construct district specific indices that are based …
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of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India’s major food crop) and two key millet crops … yields - rice yields are reduced by rainfall extremes whereas extremely high temperatures make yields of all three crops …
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This paper examines the responses of private consumption, residential investment, and business investment in 11 EU countries, Japan, and the United States to shocks in housing and equity prices. The effects are assessed with a Structural Vector Auto Regressive (SVAR) model, and four key findings...
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Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...
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The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature. While much is known about 19th century black legal and material conditions, less is known about how 19th century biological conditions were related to the physical environment and...
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This paper uses a gravity framework to investigate the effects of distance as well as subnational and national borders in knowledge spillovers. Drawing on the NBER Patent Citations Database, we examine patent citations data at metropolitan level within the U.S. and the 38 largest patent-cited...
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