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Unpacking the Farmland Capitalization Effect of Ethanol Establishment
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We unpack the impact of expansions in ethanol production—as measured by proximity to newly constructed ethanol plants and capacity expansions—on farmland values using land transaction data from Kansas in combination with modern causal inference techniques.
Gabriel S. Sampson, Jisang Yu
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A Critical Review of “Economic Development” [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2018 This book deals with the analysis of developing economies in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern and Central Europe which comprises about 85% of the world's population.
Seyed Hossein Mirjalili
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World Development, 1986 The theory of rural organization based on rational peasants in environments where information is imperfect and costly provides a simple explanation for a wide variety of phenomena in LDCs. It provides insights into both why sharecropping is so widespread and why it takes on the particular forms that it does; it provides an explanation of the ...
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Crop Insurance Design and On‐Farm Risk Adaptation
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The United States spends billions annually on crop insurance premium subsidies, yet the prevailing distance‐based guarantee design unintentionally rewards risk‐taking by linking subsidies to yield variability. We consider a simple redesign: define guarantees in terms of probability so that coverage reflects a consistent likelihood of indemnity.
Gerald Van Tassell, Alan P. Ker
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Historical antecedents of development economics
, 2008 The historical antecedents of development economics offer a wide range of notions, views and theories which are still of great importance for today’s development theories and policies.
VAGGI, GIOVANNI
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Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2009 Kalecki made important contributions to development economics, which rank him among the founding fathers of this area of our discipline. The objective of this paper is to give an account of his contributions, and in particular of his conception of the ...
Julio López G. +2 more
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A bibliometric review on development economics research in Vietnam from 2008 to 2020. [PDF]
Qual Quant, 2022 Ho MT, Le NB, Ho MT, Vuong QH.
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The Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Cafeterias: Evidence From US Military Dining Facilities
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Providing nutritious meals in institutional settings with financial constraints, such as military dining facilities, is challenging. The US Department of War (DoW) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) collaborated to modernize the Basic Daily Food Allowance (BDFA) using an optimization model that incorporates service members' consumption ...
Linlin Fan +8 more
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
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Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction?: Looking Over the Long Run
, 2017 Development Economics; Economic Growth; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Political Economy; Latin American ...
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