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Do Consumers Value Diversity in Agriculture? A Choice Experiment

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farm ownership in the US today is racially and ethnically homogeneous. Diverse farmers and ranchers make up less than 10% of all producers, they tend to be less financially stable and have tighter profit margins. In the past few years, both government and industry programs have aimed to increase the participation and profitability of diverse ...
Maria Kalaitzandonakes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Advocacy for Higher Education Research: Insights From US Agricultural Experiment Station Funding

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amidst dwindling state funding and the legislative withdrawal from public university research support, a heightened political process shapes the allocation of scarce tax dollars. This article explores how advocacy within the political process influences funding support for higher education from state legislatures.
Gregory M. Perry   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Statistical Déjà Vu: The National Data Center Proposal of 1965 and Its Descendants

open access: yesThe Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, 2013
Issues concerning sharing of statistical information, linking data sets, and storing and preserving data collected by the federal statistical agencies have long sparked debate.
Rebecca Kraus
doaj   +1 more source

Tennessee Population Growth 2000-2010 [PDF]

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Tennessee's growth rate during the relevant 10-year-period was almost 20 percent higher than the comparable national growth rate of 9.7 percent.census, 2010, Tennessee, census 2010, population growth, population, growth, change, county, counties, data ...
H. Ronald Moser
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Atlas of Illinois Poverty [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This Atlas makes available for the first time Illinois poverty data by legislative district. Elected officials now have the opportunity to understand how poverty impacts their own individual districts in three key ways: education rates, poverty rates ...

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Dollars for Drops: Abatement Cost of Water for Irrigation in the Colorado River Basin

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Colorado River is a lifeline for more than 40 million people in the western United States. However, with climate change diminishing snowpacks in the Rocky Mountains and increasing demands from agriculture and urban areas, the river's flow has become insufficient to meet all the competing needs.
Shahin Bahrami   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patterns in Tennessee's Black Population 2000-2010 [PDF]

open access: yes
The recent increase in the rate of growth in the black population has important implications for the state's population mix.Tennessee, population, black, black population, census, 2010, census 2010, population growth, population, growth, change, county ...
H. Ronald Moser
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Lake County Indicators 2014 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Social IMPACT Research Center's analysis of the U.S.
Suniya Farooqui
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Changes in Alcohol Retail Laws and Foot Traffic at Liquor Stores

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how expanding alcohol availability at grocery and convenience stores affects consumer traffic in liquor stores by leveraging recent changes in state‐level alcohol distribution laws in a difference‐in‐difference quasi‐experimental design.
Nathan Palardy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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