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The established literature shows that new stadium construction for major league baseball (MLB) teams can increase attendance, but there are limited studies at the minor league level. We use a data set encompassing all A, AA, and AAA minor league baseball teams from 1992 to 2006 to estimate the impact of stadium construction on minor league attendance. This data set includes almost 200 teams, over half of which constructed a new stadium during the 15‐year observation period. Over a 10‐year period our results show that new stadiums increase attendance by 1.2 million fans at the AAA level, 0.4 million at the AA and high A level, and 0.2 million at short season low A. A cost benefit analysis suggests that increased ticket sales do not offset the stadium costs, in line with previous works on MLB. (JEL H0, L83)

Agricultural work is an inherently dangerous job with the risk of injury considered part of a worker's compensation. We focus on the determinants of an agricultural day laborer (jornalero) having experienced an injury while working. The policy variable of interest is the worker's level of educational attainment as workers with a higher level may be better able to understand how equipment works and safety warnings. Controlling for other factors, we find that at the variable means, a jornalero with an additional year of education has a 7.7 percent lower probability of having experienced an accident.

This paper exploits a two-stage estimation approach to examine the impact on secondary school attainment in rural Honduras of four key variables affecting household choices: wealth, credit access, crop choice, and shocks. The first stage estimates the probability that a household is credit constrained, while the second estimates secondary school educational attainment of appropriately aged children. Credit-constrained households have lower educational attainment and are more likely to be adversely affected by negative shocks. (InWent/GIGA)

AbstractAgricultural support and cash transfer programmes are both used to improve nutrition outcomes in developing countries. Our review of both programmes based on a literature search of over 22 000 articles in 8 databases has four key findings. First, these programmes often increase total food consumption, but half of agricultural programmes do not measure changes in total food consumption; (2) over 20% of cash transfer programmes fail to improve the quantity of food consumed, though (3) both programme types improved the quality of food consumption. Finally, (4) both programme types show weak evidence of improvements in micronutrients and anthropometric outcomes.