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Climate Change Agricultural Comparative Advantage and the US Trade Balance
ABSTRACT Current science indicates that warming and elevated atmospheric CO2 will have ambiguous results for crop productivity depending on crop type and geographic location, whereas increased heat stress makes livestock and human labor less productive.
Elizabeth A. Fraysse +2 more
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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Leveling the Intra-household Playing Field: Compensation and Specialization in Child Labor Allocation [PDF]
This paper analyzes changes in the allocation of child labor within the household in reaction to exogenous shocks created by a social program in Nicaragua. The paper shows that households that randomly received a conditional cash transfer compensated for
Macours, Karen, V. Del Carpio, Ximena
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Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria
ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
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An Empirical Analysis on the Tradeoff between Schooling and Child Labor in the Philippines [PDF]
Does the prevalence of child work or child labor encumber on the country's economic growth and development? This paper looks into the reality that is child labor and tries to understand its existence in light of education realities and schooling issues ...
Aldaba, Fernando T. +2 more
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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues
ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte +2 more
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ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
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ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
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If Johnny Can't Work, Can Johnny Read Better?: Child Labor Laws, Labor Supply and Schooling Outcomes [PDF]
The two most common state child labor restrictions are work permit requirements for teenagers and school dropout ages that are more stringent than federal requirements.
Lee, Chanyoung, Orazem, Peter
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Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li +2 more
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