Browsing by Author "Hornbeck, Richard"
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Barbed Wire: Property Rights and Agricultural Development
Hornbeck, Richard A. (Oxford University Press, 2010)This paper examines the impact on agricultural development from the introduction of barbed wire fencing to the American Plains in the late 19th century. Without a fence, farmers risked uncompensated damage by others’ ... -
Being Surveyed Can Change Later Behavior and Related Parameter Estimates
Zwane, A. P.; Zinman, J.; Van Dusen, E.; Pariente, W.; Null, C.; Miguel, E.; Kremer, Michael R.; Karlan, D. S.; Hornbeck, Richard A.; Gine, X.; Duflo, E.; Devoto, F.; Crepon, B.; Banerjee, A. (National Academy of Sciences, 2011)Does completing a household survey change the later behavior of those surveyed? In three field studies of health and two of microlending, we randomly assigned subjects to be surveyed about health and/or household finances ... -
The Enduring Impact of the American Dust Bowl: Short- and Long-Run Adjustments to Environmental Catastrophe
Hornbeck, Richard A. (American Economic Association, 2012)The 1930s American Dust Bowl was an environmental catastrophe that greatly eroded sections of the Plains. The Dust Bowl is estimated to have immediately, substantially, and persistently reduced agricultural land values and ... -
Essays on Development Economics
Islam, Mahnaz (2015-05-18)This dissertation studies agricultural technology adoption, child labor and development. Although adoption of fertilizers has been high in South Asia, farmers may fail to use it efficiently. Besides higher costs incurred ... -
Essays on Industrial Policy and Communication
Rotemberg, Martin (2015-05-14)In my dissertation, I study government policies and their effects on the behavior of agents in the economy. Chapter 1 discusses the effects that subsidies for small firms have on aggregate output and productivity, with an ... -
Essays on Intergenerational Mobility and Inequality in Economic History
Feigenbaum, James (2016-05-18)This dissertation explores intergenerational mobility and inequality in the early twentieth century. The first chapter asks whether economic downturns increase or decrease mobility. I estimate the effect of the Great ... -
Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Winners and Losers of Large Plant Openings
Greenstone, Michael; Hornbeck, Richard A.; Moretti, Enrico (The University of Chicago Press, 2010)We quantify agglomeration spillovers by estimating the impact of the opening of a large manufacturing plant on the total factor productivity (TFP) of incumbent plants in the same county. We use the location rankings of ... -
Land, Labor and Technology: Essays in Development Economics
Fernando, Asanga Nilesh (2015-05-17)Many of the world's rural poor make a living from agriculture. Consequently, the productivity of agriculture and non-agricultural employment opportunities are important determinants of rural poverty and the subject matter ... -
Nature versus Nurture: The Environment's Persistent Influence through the Modernization of American Agriculture
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Price Discrimination and Smuggling of AIDS Drugs
Hornbeck, Richard A. (Berkeley Electronic Press, 2005)Patent-holding pharmaceutical companies are shown to be imperfectly able to charge differential prices for AIDS drugs due to the potential for black market exchange. Thus, greater segmentation in the international market ... -
Proximate Causes: The Influence of Agglomeration, Access to Finance, and Infrastructure on US Economic Growth, 1860-1990
Lee, James Grant (2015-05-11)Location matters. A firm's proximity to other firms, finance, and infrastructure affects its profitability and productivity. My dissertation examines how. In chapter one, I quantify the underlying sources of agglomeration, ...