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Misallocation, Selection and Productivity : A Quantitative Analysis with Panel Data from China

Adamopoulos, Tasso - 2017

factor misallocation in agriculture. We find that there are substantial frictions in both the land and capital markets linked … to land institutions in rural China that disproportionately constrain the more productive farmers. These frictions reduce … (misallocation) and (2) the allocation of workers across sectors, in particular the type of farmers who operate in agriculture …

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Finance, Farms, and the Fed's Early Years

Carlin, Bruce Ian - 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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The Evolving Impact of the Ogallala Aquifer : Agricultural Adaptation to Groundwater and Climate

Hornbeck, Richard - 2015

Agriculture on the American Great Plains has been constrained by historical water scarcity. After World War II …

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Agricultural Innovation

Wright, Brian D. - 2015

. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …

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Agricultural Improvements and Access to Rail Transportation : the American Midwest as a Test Case, 1850-1860

Atack, Jeremy - 2015

During the 1850s, land in U.S. farms surged by more than 100 million acres while almost 50 million acres of land were transformed from their raw, natural state into productive farmland. The time and expense of transforming this land into a productive resource represented a significant fraction...

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The Biophysical and Economic Geographies of Global Climate Impacts on Agriculture

Baldos, Uris Lantz C. - 2018

agriculture. It does so by bridging the extensive literature on climate impacts on yields and physical productivity in global crop …

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Gravity and Comparative Advantage : Estimation of Trade Elasticities for the Agricultural Sector

Heerman, Kari - 2018

In this paper, a structural gravity model is presented which features intra-sector heterogeneity in agricultural productivity systematically linked to land and climate characteristics. The “systematic heterogeneity” (SH) gravity model predicts that countries with similar land and climate...

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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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Long Term Changes in U.S. Agricultural Output Per Worker, 1800 to 1900

Weiss, Thomas - 2021

The nineteenth century was a period of expansion and transformation of American agriculture. While much is known about …

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New Goods and the Transition to a New Economy

Greenwood, Jeremy; Uysal, Gokce - 2021

worked in agriculture. Barely anyone did by 2000. What caused the rapid demise of agriculture in the economy? The analysis …

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