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Integration, social distress, and policy formation
Stark, Oded (2012-01)I study the integration of regions in the form of a merger of populations, which I interpret as a revision of people’s social space and their comparison set; I illustrate the way in which a merger can aggravate social ... -
Global food price volatility and spikes: An overview of costs, causes, and solutions
von Braun, Joachim; Tadesse, Getaw (2012)Since the 2007–08 food crisis, many thoughtful analyses have addressed the causes and impacts of high and volatile international food prices and proposed solutions to the crisis. These studies have covered global as well ... -
Economics of land degradation initiative: Methods and approach for global and national assessments
Nkonya, Ephraim; von Braun, Joachim; Mirzabaev, Alisher; Le, Quang Bao; Kwon, Ho Young; Kirui, Oliver (2013-10)Healthy land ecosystems are essential to sustainable development, including food security and improved livelihoods. Yet, their key services have usually been taken for granted and their true value underrated, leading to ... -
Integration as a catalyst for assimilation
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin (2013-08)We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host country’s society, and economic ... -
Migration and dynamics: How a leakage of human capital lubricates the engine of economic growth
Sorger, Gerhard; Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong (2013-07)This paper studies the growth dynamics of a developing country under migration. Assuming that human capital formation is subject to a strong enough, positive intertemporal externality, the prospect of migration will increase ... -
Ethnicity, marriage and family income
Matz, Julia Anna (2013-07)This study adds a microeconomic perspective to the discussion on ethnic diversity and economic performance in developing countries by investigating the motivation for intra-ethnicity marriage in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. ... -
Stressful integration
Stark, Oded (2013-05)This paper considers the integration of economies as a merger of populations. The premise is that the merger of groups of people alters their social landscape and their comparators. The paper identifies the effect of the ... -
Futures commodities prices and media coverage
Almánzar, Miguel; Torero, Máximo; von Grebmer, Klaus (2013-05)In this paper we examine the effects of media coverage of commodity prices increases and decreases on the price of the commodity and how media coverage in other commodities affects prices. We provide evidence of the ... -
How market-based water allocation can improve water use efficiency in the Aral Sea basin?
Bekchanov, Maksud; Bhaduri, Anik; Ringler, Claudia (2013-05)Increasing water demand due to population growth, irrigation expansion, industrial development, and the need for ecosystem improvements under mounting investment costs for developing new water sources calls for the efficient, ... -
A roller coaster ride: an empirical investigation of the main drivers of wheat price
Algieri, Bernardina (2013-02)Over the last decade, commodity prices have registered substantial booms and busts marked by extreme volatility. Wheat in particular, one of the main non-oil commodities, has registered a roller-coaster in price levels ... -
Short-term global crop acreage response to international food prices and implications of volatility
Haile, Mekbib G.; Kalkuhl, Matthias; von Braun, Joachim (2013-02)Understanding how producers make decisions to allot acreage among crops and how decisions about land use are affected by changes in prices and their volatility is fundamental for predicting the supply of staple crops and, ... -
International migration, human capital formation, and saving
Stark, Oded; Dorn, Agnieszka (2013-01)In the model of Stark et al. (1997, 1998), the possibility of employment in a developed country raises the level of human capital acquired by workers in the developing country. We show that this result holds even when ... -
Back to the futures: An assessment of commodity market efficiency and forecast error drivers
Algieri, Bernardina; Kalkuhl, Matthias (2014-09)The role of futures markets in stabilizing spot prices has been extensively discussed. Nevertheless, the ability of these markets to achieve the stabilizing function significantly depends on whether they are ‘efficient’ ... -
The impact of shocks on gender-differentiated asset dynamics in Bangladesh
Rakib, Muntaha; Matz, Julia Anna (2014-07)Assets are an important means of coping with adverse events in developing countries but the role of gendered ownership is not yet fully understood. This paper investigates changes in assets owned by the household head, his ... -
Biomass productivity-based mapping of global land degradation hotspots
Le, Quang Bao; Nkonya, Ephraim; Mirzabaev, Alisher (2014-07)Land degradation is a global problem affecting negatively the livelihoods and food security of billions of people, especially farmers and pastoralists in the developing countries. Eradicating extreme poverty without ... -
A policy response to a downside of the integration of economies: An impossibility theorem
Stark, Oded (2014-05)Recent research shows that the merger of economies increases aggregate stress. This paper shows that there is no income distribution policy which will ensure that the wellbeing of the individuals belonging to merging ... -
How strong do global commodity prices influence domestic food prices in developing countries?: A global price transmission and vulnerability mapping analysis
Kalkuhl, Matthias (2014-05)This paper analyzes the transmission from global commodity to domestic food prices for a large set of countries. First, a theoretical model is developed to explain price transmission for different trade regimes. Drawing ... -
Socially gainful gender quotas
Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter (2014-05)We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals’ formation of human capital is influenced by the prospect of landing high-pay top positions, and that these positions are ... -
Welfare effects of vegetable commercialization: Evidence from smallhoder producers in Kenya
Muriithi, Beatrice W.; Matz, Julia Anna (2014-04)We investigate the impact of smallholder vegetable commercialization through the export and domestic market channels on household income and assets in Kenya. We use a survey panel dataset, which allows us to control for ... -
On the economics of others
Stark, Oded (2014-03)We relate to others in two important ways: we care about others, and we care about how we fare in comparison to others. In some contexts, these two forms of relatedness interact. Caring about others can conveniently be ...