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Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers by Pfaff, Alexander, Robalino, Juan, Reis, Eustaquio J., Walker, Robert, Perz, Stephen, Laurance, William, Bohrer, Claudio, Aldrich, Steven, Arima, Eugenio, Caldas, Marcellus, Kirby, Kathryn R.

“…For multiple periods of roads investments, the authors estimate forest impacts for high, medium and low prior roads and deforestation. For each setting, census-tract observations are numerous. Results confirm predictions for this kind of frontier of a pattern not consistent with endogeneity, i.e., short-run forest impacts of new roads are: small for relatively high prior development; larger for medium prior development; and small for low prior development (for the latter setting, impacts in such isolated areas could rise over time, depending on interactions with conservation policies). …”
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Carbon footprint of India’s groundwater irrigation by Rajan, Abhishek, Ghosh, Kuhelika, Shah, Ananya

“…The study uses actual pumping data on 20.5 million groundwater structures from the Fifth Minor Irrigation Census (reference year 2013–14) to estimate carbon emissions. …”
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Farmscape sustainability: a case study using an adaptation of the Sustainable Livelihood Framework in Caquetá, Colombia by Pérez Marulanda, Lisset, Lavelle, Patrick M., Rudbeck, Martin, Castro Nuñez, Augusto, Camilo, Karen, Vanegas, Martha, Sachet, Erwan, Romero Sánchez, Miguel Antonio, Suarez Salazar, Juan C., Solarte, Antonio, Francesconi, Wendy, Quintero, Marcela

“…The sample is representative of the four municipalities, according to the Colombian Census carried out in 2005. We used a stratified optimal random sampling strategy across the number of rural households in the municipalities to account for the number of farms. …”
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The youth dividend and agricultural revival in India by Narayanan, Sudha, Vijayabaskar, M., Srinivasan, Sharada

“…Fifty-four per cent of India’s population is under 25 years of age and, as per the 2011 Population Census, close to 34 per cent of India’s rural population belonged to the age group 15–34. …”
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Land market distortions and aggregate agricultural productivity: Evidence from Guatemala by Britos, Braulio, Hernandez, Manuel A., Robles, Miguel, Trupkin, Danilo R.

“…We measure these distortions for the case of Guatemala using agricultural census microdata. We find that due to land market imperfections aggregate output is 19% below its efficient level for both maize and beans and 31% below for coffee, which are three major crops produced nationwide. …”
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Mechanization growth and declining farm size in South Asia: Exploring the role of biological technologies in Nepal Terai by Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Liu, Yanyan

“…We do so by using two-rounds of Agricultural Census data in Nepal, as well as Nepal Living Standard Survey (NLSS), and indicators of agroclimatic similarity with plant-breeding locations within Nepal.…”
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Revisiting the labor demand curve: The wage effects of immigration and women’s entry into the US labor force, 1960–2010 by de Brauw, Alan, Russell, Joseph R. D

“…In this paper, we replicate and update Borjas with the 2010 US census data, and use the method to study an even larger, concurrent labor supply shock, namely the entry of women into the labor force. …”
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The effect of insurance enrollment on maternal and child health care utilization: The case of Ghana by Gajate-Garrido, Gissele, Ahiadeke, Clement

“…Using the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey and a census of all district insurance offices, this paper finds that insurance membership increases the probability of (1) seeking higher-quality (but no greater quantity of) maternal services and (2) parents’ becoming more active users of child curative care. …”
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Integrating socio-economic and biophysical assessments using a land use allocation model by Du, Y., Huffman, T., Toure, S., Feng, F., Gameda, Samuel, Green, M., Liu, T., Shi, X.

“…To assess the validity of our prototype LUAM, we compared the predicted crop areas with actual crop data from the Census of Agriculture using the method of cumulative residuals (MCR). …”
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An evaluation of the distributional power of PROGRESA's cash transfers in Mexico by Coady, David

“…Using both national-sample and program-level census survey data, we evaluate the distributional power of Mexico's Programa Nacional de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) transfers using the so-called distributional characteristic.These transfers are targeted both geographically at marginal localities and at poor households within these localities. …”
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An evaluation of the distributional power of PROGRESA's cash transfers in Mexico by Coady, David

“…Using both national-sample and program-level census survey data, we evaluate the distributional power of Mexico's Programa Nacional de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) transfers using the so-called distributional characteristic.These transfers are targeted both geographically at marginal localities and at poor households within these localities. …”
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Nutrition mapping in Tanzania: an exploratory analysis by Simler, Kenneth R.

“…In contrast, data sources with wider coverage, such as national censuses, rarely capture detailed information on welfare levels. …”
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The Nutrition-Sensitive Food Environment Index: A comprehensive approach to assessing food environments in association with health risks for policy decision making by Akingbemisilu, Tosin Harold, Jordan, Irmgard, Asiimwe, Robert, Bodjrenou, Sam, Nabuuma, Deborah, Odongo, Nicanor, Onyango, Kevin Omondi, Teferi, Ermias, Tokeshi, Casey, Lundy, Mark, Termote, Celine

“…Integrating comprehensive food environment assessments at the administrative census level is recommended to reduce estimation biases and to enhance the policymaking process. …”
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Contrasted land use and development trajectories in the Brazilian Amazon by Mertens, B., Piketty, M.G., Venturieri, A., Alves, D., Tourrand, Jean François

“…This study draws on complementary datasets, socio-economic census, key informants interviews and satellite remote sensing imagery, linked with geo-referenced information on human and biophysical conditions. …”
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Species diversification, livestock production and income of the poor in the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh by Akter, S., Farrington, John, Deshingkar, P., Rao, L., Freeman, H.A.

“…The data used are drawn from the Livelihood Options Study led by the Overseas Development Institute, London, specifically the Census Survey 2001/2 and Panel Survey of early 2005. …”
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Effects of habitat loss and limitation on effective population size and inbreeding rates of Walia ibex (Capra walie) in Ethiopia by Alemayehu, K., Dessie, Tadelle, Mekasha, Yoseph

“…Correlations (r) between the two repeated direct censuses were positive (r = 0.99, P < 0.01). The mean Ne and ?…”
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Current status and scope for improvement of agricultural water productivity in the Indo-Gangetic River Basin by Xueliang Cai, Sharma, Bharat R., Matin, Mir Abdul

“…A new approach was adopted in the study to integrate census, remote sensing and weather data to assess crop water productivity (WP) across large scale. …”
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Seroprevalence of Leptospira antibodies in dogs and cats from Santa Fe, a city in East-Central Argentina endemic for leptospirosis by Ricardo, Tamara, Bazán Domínguez, Ludmila R., Beltramini, Lucila, Prieto, Yanina, Montiel, Anahí, Margenet, Leticia, Schmeling, María Fernanda, Chiani, Yosena, Signorini Porchiett, Marcelo Lisandro, Previtali, M. Andrea

“…We used generalized linear mixed effects models (GLMM) to examine individual and census tract-level risk factors for seropositivity, and local Moran’s I statistic for spatial clusters. …”
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The extent and structure of peri-urban smallholder dairy farming in five cities in India by Lindahl, Johanna F., Chauhan, A., Gill, J.P.S., Hazarika, R.A., Fairoze, N.M., Grace, Delia, Gaurav, A., Satpathy, S.K., Kakkar, M.

“…We selected five cities from different regions of the country and conducted a census in 34 randomly selected peri-urban villages to identify and describe all smallholder dairy farms. …”
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Socioeconomic and environmental survey for implementing sustainable cacao systems for forest conservation for climate change mitigation and peacebuilding in Colombia by Romero Sánchez, Miguel Antonio, Pérez Marulanda, Lisset, Quintero, Marcela, González, Carolina, Calderón, Victor, Vanegas, Silvia, Rio Duque, Martha Lilia del, Vanegas Cubillos, Martha Cristina, Castro-Nuñez, Augusto Carlos

“…Methodology: The survey data were collected using Android tablet devices CSPro 6.2 and 6.3 (U.S. Census Bureau 2020). The interview method was face-to-face in Spanish, and it was based on a closed-ended survey questionnaire. …”
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