Publications by authors named "Shoumitro Chatterjee"
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- Groundwater is getting low, which is bad for food and farmers' jobs.
- Farmers get paid extra for crops, but this has caused them to use too much water, especially for crops like rice and wheat.
- In some areas, the way these payments are set up is hurting the environment and may cause big problems in the future.
Following mid-twentieth century predictions of Malthusian catastrophe, fertility in the developing world more than halved, while living standards more than doubled. We analyze how fertility change related to economic growth during this episode, using data on 2.3 million women from 255 household surveys.
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