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Addressing Soil Quality Data Gaps with Imputation: Evidence from Ethiopia and Uganda

Dang, Hai-Anh; Carletto, Calogero; Gourlay, Sydney; … - 2024

Monitoring soil quality provides indispensable inputs for effective policy advice, but very few poorer countries can implement high-quality surveys on soil. We offer an alternative, low-cost imputation-based approach to generating various soil quality indicators. The estimation results validate...

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Hurricane Watch: Battening Down the Effects of the Storm on Local Crop Production

Spencer, Nekeisha; Polachek, Solomon - 2015

This study utilizes a panel fixed effects model to explore the economic impact of hurricanes on local crop production in Jamaica using quarterly 1999-2008 micro level data. We find, in general, that hurricanes will have a negative impact on production but not for crops grown below ground. The...

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COVID-19 Employment Status Impacts on Food Sector Workers

Cho, Seung Jin; Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2020

difficulties maintaining worker health and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine employment status changes of …

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Geography vs. institutions at the village level

Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2008

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...

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Unequal access to higher education in the Czech Republic: The role of spatial distribution of universities

Franta, Michal; Guzi, Martin - 2012

We explore a potential source of human capital spatial disparities: the unequal access to tertiary education caused by the absence/presence of a local university. Because the entrance to a university is a sequential process in the Czech Republic we model both a student's decision to apply to a...

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Conflict, food price shocks, and food insecurity: The experience of Afghan households

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - 2012

Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...

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What Do Unions Do for Economic Performance?

Hirsch, Barry T. - 2003

in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity effects vary substantially across workplaces. Their conclusion that union … productivity effect near zero. Their speculation that productivity effects are larger in more competitive environments appears to …

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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2004

How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This … rates that bore little relationship to relative labor and multifactor productivity across firms. Since reforms began …, resource flows have increased in both countries, and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth have become …

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Reforms and Productivity Dynamics in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

McGoldrick, Peter; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2004

and operate on international markets) on the productivity dynamics of enterprises. Using a unique balanced panel of 681 … show that exposure to deep reform have lead to higher productivity realisations while remaining under state ownership. …

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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers

Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004

We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...

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