This dissertation analyzes how technological and institutional changes influence economic development. Chapter 1 quantifies the long-term effect of refrigeration on agricultural production. Mechanical refrigeration greatly reduced transportation cost for perishable products but …
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This dissertation seeks to explain the highly uneven pattern of economic development in Brazil during the 20th century. Stark development differences between the northern and southern regions of the country have long been a problem of concern to scholars and policymakers and hav…
Coloradans have changed their fundamental views on illegal substances since the decriminalization of cannabis in Colorado. Since the legalization of medical cannabis in 2014, state-sold dispensary cannabis products have straddled the line between legal and illegal network system…
The state of Colorado has 22.49 million acres of forestland, a growing proportion of which is under threat from disease, insects, drought and wildfire. The severity of these threats originates from a long history of misguided forest management practices that have decreased the o…
This dissertation consists of three essays. The first one focuses on Colombia after 1850 and measures the impact of the expropriation of Church's assets on political violence. With yearly data on the number of battles per municipality, archival information on the reform, and dif…
Agricultural economists have long studied crop yields and risk to help farm-level risk management. Producers face difficult decisions every year regarding market prices, management practices, and the uncertainty of weather. In our research, we use crop yield records while incorp…
Colombia seems to be aligned with the normal path of economic transformation; as the share of agriculture has decreased, the non-agricultural sector has become the dominant sector in the economy. In that way, it is expected that the agricultural sector should have increased its …
Harvesting the sap of maple trees [Acer saccharum] for use in the production of syrups and sugars has a storied history stretching back to the pre-Columbian practices of North America’s indigenous peoples. Since its adaptation by European settlers in the late seventeenth century…
The Sharecropping system in the 19th and 20th century in North Carolina had a significant impact on the African-American community. Blacks were liberated and wanting to excel in American society. But due to Jim Crow and racist Southern whites, African Americans still found thems…
It is clear that the increasing of agriculture productiveness is essential to economic development, but this involves special problems arising from the distinct characteristics of agriculture itself and of its relations with the other sectors of economy and society. Ultimately, …
This thesis deals with the role of land markets in the redistribution of land and agrarian reform in South Africa, a capitalist economy which is uniquely marked by the legacy of institutionalised racism and in which the land question is intimately bound up with both reparation a…
This study analyses the dynamics of persistence of the peasantry in a capitalist social formation through a case study of a village (Kayadibi) of hazelnut producers in the Central Black Sea region of Turkey. In the analysis the peasant household is given analytical priority as i…
What does the proliferation of food festival tell us about rural areas? How can these celebrations pave the way to a better future for the local communities? This book is addressing these questions contributing to the ongoing debate about the future of rural peripheries in Europ…