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Do Universal Free School Meals Improve the Dietary Quality of Food‐At‐Home Purchases?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since 2014, the number of schools offering universal free meals to all enrolled children without requiring annual meal applications has increased meaningfully. Using USDA's Purchase to Plate Crosswalk, a difference‐in‐differences framework, and a nationwide consumer panel, the effect of universal‐free‐meal exposure on the diet quality of food ...
Xueying Ma, Andres Cuadros‐Meñaca, Michael R. Thomsen   +2 more
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Farmers' Preferences for Gene Editing Crops and Influencing Factors

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gene editing (GE) is gaining momentum worldwide, but limited data on UK farmers' preferences hinders our understanding of its potential impact amid deregulation debates. Based on a survey of 200 English arable farmers, we employ a Latent Class Analysis and Multinomial Logit regressions to investigate current preferences for GE crops.
Bertolozzi‐Caredio Daniele, Vigani Mauro   +1 more
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Transition Spillovers? The Protest Behaviour of the 1989 Generation in Europe

, 2019
Many studies suggest that citizens of Central and Eastern Europe are less politically active than their peers in Western Europe. Yet, it is unclear whether previous experiences of mobilization moderate these differences. This article focuses on the protest behaviour of the 1989 generation, which is composed of citizens who reached political maturity ...
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Voluntary Collective Action to Address Growing Agricultural Challenges in Two Countries: Experimental Insights and Commonalities

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We conducted two framed field economic experiments with citrus farmers in Florida, United States and soybean farmers in Argentina to investigate their willingness to coordinate pest and weed management efforts. Despite the contrast between these two agricultural contexts, we find striking behavioral commonalities.
Ariel Singerman, Sergio H. Lence
wiley   +1 more source

The Volatility Spillover Effects and Optimal Hedging Strategy in the Corn Market [PDF]

This article examines the volatility spillovers from energy market to corn market. Using a volatility spillover model from the finance literature, we found significant spillovers from energy market to corn cash and futures markets, and the spillover ...
Wu, Feng, Guan, Zhengfei
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The introduction of a single-use carrier bag charge in Wales: attitude change and behavioural spillover effects [PDF]

, 2012
Wales is the first country in the United Kingdom to have introduced a charge for single-use carrier bags. From the 1st of October 2011 shoppers in Wales have to pay a compulsory five pence for each single-use carrier bag at point of sale.
Poortinga, Wouter, Suffolk, Christine, Whitmarsh, Lorraine E.   +2 more
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Integrating Perennial Groundcover in Corn and Soybean Acres: Impacts on U.S. Agriculture

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable agricultural practices such as cover cropping can improve soil health, water quality, and carbon sequestration, yet U.S. adoption remains limited due to economic and operational barriers. We evaluate market and economic impacts of integrating perennial groundcover into U.S.
Sagar Dahal, Amani Elobeid, John Crespi
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Risk factors and mitigation strategies for spillover of MERS-CoV and other infections at the camel-human-interface: Rapid research needs appraisal

Journal of Infection and Public Health
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), caused by MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV), is a zoonotic disease transmitted from camels-to-humans. We applied a targeted rapid research needs appraisal (RRNA) to review evidence and gaps on spill-over risk ...
Dijana Spasenoska, Naemi Araya, Marieke de Swart, Eli Harriss, Marakiya Moetlediwa, Musawenkosi Ndlovu, Yonela Ntamo, Katrin Probyn, Gemma Villanueva, Nicholas Henschke, Vincent Cheng, Ainura Moldokmatova, Karen Saylors, Khawater Bahkali, Jamila Aden, Qassim Mohamed Moallim Abdi, Nabeela Al-Abdullah, Ekta Patel, Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Esam I. Azhar, lhab El-Masry, Nina Gobat, Abdullah Al-Sayafi, Alice Simniceanu, Sophie von Dobschuetz, Maria D. Van Kerkhove, Duduzile Ndwandwe, Alice Norton, Louise Sigfrid, Amal Mohammed Alshahrani, Ekta Patel, Esam I. Azhar, Ghazi Kayali, Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Jamila Aden, Karen Saylors, Khawater Bahkali, Mutaz Abdelbagi Mohammed, Nabeela Al-Abdullah, Naif Alharbi, Qassim Abdi Moallim Mohamed   +40 more
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A comparison of Spillover Effects before, during and after the 2008 Financial Crisis [PDF]

This paper applies graphical modelling to the S&P 500, Nikkei 225 and FTSE 100 stock market indices to trace the spillover of returns and volatility between these three major world stock market indices before, during and after the 2008 financial crisis ...
Alethea Rea, William Rea, Marco Reale, Carl Scarrott   +3 more
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Rational Expectations and Market Timing: An Event Study of the China–United States Phase One Trade Deal

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rational actors constantly incorporate information into their decision‐making behavior. Since there is often a time lag between the announcement of a policy and its implementation, an important question arises: when do rational actors incorporate new information into their market behavior, at the announcement or at the implementation of a ...
Tim Ölkers, Oliver Mußhoff
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