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The Gendered Effects of Climate Change : Production Shocks and Labor Response in Agriculture

Afridi, Farzana; Mahajan, Kanika; Sangwan, Nikita - 2021

Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the …

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The Agricultural Productivity Gap and Self-Employment Bias in the Labor Income Share

Paul, Saumik - 2020

-sector neoclassical framework with agriculture and non-agriculture, we derive the productivity-adjusted aggregate labor income share in … terms of the agricultural productivity gap, and the labor income share in non-agriculture and value-added factor shares. We … significant only in agriculture, which can be attributed to the heavily underreported income from self-employed workers in …

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Development and Sources of Labor Productivity in Chinese Provinces

Su, Biwei - 2012

As China exhibited unprecedented rapid economic growth ever since its reform and openness, the development and sources of labor productivity has gradually come to the forefront. This paper studies the development and the source of labor productivity in 31 Chinese provinces during the period of...

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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...

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Alternative Composite Lisbon Development Strategy Indices

Oh, Jong-Eun; Heshmati, Almas - 2021

This study addresses the measurement of two composite Lisbon strategy indices that quantifies the level and patterns of development for ranking countries. The first index is nonparametric labelled as Lisbon strategy index (LSI). It is composed of six components: general economics, employment,...

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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development : Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Švejnar, Jan; Terrell, … - 2021

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...

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Rural Households in a Changing Climate

Baez, Javier E. - 2012

This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...

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How General are Time Preferences? Eliciting Good-Specific Discount Rates

Ubfal, Diego - 2012

This paper tests the broadly adopted assumption that people apply a single discount rate to the utility from different sources of consumption. Using unique data from two surveys conducted in rural Uganda including both hypothetical and real choices over different goods, the paper elicits time...

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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Poverty in Rural Bangladesh

Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2012

This paper revisits the debate over the importance of absolute vs. relative income as a correlate of subjective well-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We do so by combining household data with...

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Village Economies and the Structure of Extended Family Networks

Angelucci, Manuela - 2009

This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, we construct within-village extended family networks in 504 poor rural villages. Family networks are larger...

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