This paper investigates the determinants of rapeseed hail insurance and pesticide use decisions using individualpanel data set of French farms covering the period from 1993 to 2004. Economic theory suggests that insuranceand prevention decisions are not independent due to risk reduction and/or...

The railway revolution that swayed through Europe in the nineteenth century left a legacy of unexplored networks. In this paper, we observe a subset of unfinished railways to evaluate the impact of railroads on population growth. Using the random nature of the achieved portions, we compare...