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A test on adverse selection of farmers in crop insurance: Results from Inner Mongolia, China
Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2017 Adverse selection is an operating risk of crop insurance. Based on survey data on crop insurance collected by questionnaires in Inner Mongolia, China, the paper uses non-parametric analysis and econometric models to estimate the relationship between ...
Yuan-feng ZHAO +3 more
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Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2020 A household survey and focus group discussions were conducted to quantify the general determinants of an indexbased crop insurance adoption under limited liabilities in Burundi, and specifically the effect of existing Village Savings and Loan ...
Marcien Ndagijimana +3 more
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Machine Learning Models for Predicting Romanian Farmers’ Purchase of Crop Insurance
Mathematics, 2022 Considering the large size of the agricultural sector in Romania, increasing the crop insurance adoption rate and identifying the factors that drive adoption can present a real interest in the Romanian market.
Codruţa Mare +5 more
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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang +4 more
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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina +1 more
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Crop insurance demand in wheat production: focusing on yield gaps and asymmetric information
Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 2018 Analysis of yield gaps were conducted in the context of crop insurance and used to build an indicator of asymmetric information. The possible influence of asymmetric information in the decision of Spanish wheat producers to contract insurance was ...
Alba Castañeda-Vera +3 more
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
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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 +1 more
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The optimization of Three-echelon Agricultural Supply Chain under Crop Revenue Insurance
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2017 As the agricultural supply chain of is vulnerability due to the dual effects of natural disaster and marketable risk, the paper deals with the optimization of agricultural supply chain by introducing the crop revenue insurance for the first time. Firstly,
Wu Juncao, Shi Qiyuan
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Agriculture, 2023 Insurance purchase and organization participation in risk management is of great practical significance for stabilizing agricultural production and household income.
Yanyuan Zhang, Xintong Wu
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