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Why Do Shoppers Use Cash? Evidence from Shopping Diary Data [PDF]

, 2012
Recent studies find that cash remains a dominant payment choice for small-value transactions despite the prevalence of alternative methods of payment such as debit and credit cards.
Wakamori, Naoki, Welte, Angelika
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Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
wiley   +1 more source

Tax Policy and Farm Organization

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) introduced substantial changes to the tax code, affecting farms' organizational incentives. This study examines farms' responses to the TCJA along extensive and intensive margins, focusing on organizational and labor expense adjustments.
Tia M. McDonald, Katherine Lacy
wiley   +1 more source

Combined metabolome and transcriptome profiling provides insights into dynamic molecular control of lemon (Citrus Limon L.) peel development

BMC Plant Biology
Background Lemon peels are crucial quality traits and important sources of nutraceuticals. However, the regulation of peel development remains largely misunderstood.
Hongming Liu, Chunrui Long, Shaohua Wang, Xiaomeng Fu, Jianmei Dong, Wei Yan, Meichao Dong, Minxian Duan, Birong Zhang, Hongxia Yang, Yuxia Du, Xianyan Zhou   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
wiley   +1 more source

The combined application of chemical and microbial fertilizers enhanced microbial diversity and improved soil fertility in the peanut rhizosphere within a sugarcane-peanut intercropping system

Frontiers in Microbiology
The decline in soil microecological balance and fertility caused by continuous cropping obstacles and excessive application of chemical fertilizers has become a critical bottleneck restricting the sustainable development of the peanut industry.
Haining Wu, Jiayu Qin, Boyin Li, Zhipeng Huang, Guoting Liao, Xiumei Tang, Zhong Li, Jun Xiong, Zhongkui Gao, Jing Jiang, Ruichun Zhong, Zhuqiang Han, Liangqiong He, Ronghua Tang   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparative physiochemical and transcriptomic analysis reveals the influences of cross-pollination on ovary and fruit development in pummelo (Citrus maxima)

Scientific Reports, 2023
‘Shuijingmiyou’ pummelo (SJ), one of the most popular fruits in Yunnan province of China, is of relatively low fruit shape (FS) quality. In this study, we compared the FS promoting effects of cross pollinations using pollens from seven pummelo varieties,
Shaohua Wang, Chunrui Long, Hongming Liu, Li Pan, Shizao Yang, Jun Zhao, Yan Jiang, Xuejun Bei   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of diagram format and user numeracy on understanding cash flow data [PDF]

, 2014
An issue of longstanding concern in accounting information systems is the effective presentation and communication of financial data to users with little accounting background.
Van Der Heijden, Hans
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Ban Glyphosate—Does It Affect the Swedish Farmers' Willingness to Grow Cover Crops?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cultivation of cover crops is one of the new Eco‐scheme practices introduced in Sweden. This study examines how the design of policy attributes of these schemes influences farmers' willingness to grow cover crops on arable land, with particular focus on the potential impact of a glyphosate ban.
Vivian Wei Huang, Anna Kristina Edenbrandt, Elin Röös   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross, Wesley M. Zebrowski, Julia C. D. Valliant   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source