Impact of energy depletion, human development, and income distribution on natural resource sustainability. [PDF]
Xu Y, Zhao F.
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Crop Insurance Design and On‐Farm Risk Adaptation
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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International trade and income distribution : reconsidering the evidence. [PDF]
This article reassesses the link between international trade and income distribution. We argue that one way to assess the influence of international trade upon income distribution is to take account of each country’s specific trade patterns by measuring ...
Bensidoun, Isabelle +2 more
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A SURVEY OF PENSIONERS' INCOME DISTRIBUTION [PDF]
One of the most important objectives of implementing social security systems is income redistribution and poverty alleviation among the members of the society, that is accompanied with other policies to improve income distribution.Among different ...
Mahnoosh Abdollah Milani
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Parenthood and the gender division of labour across the income distribution:: the relative importance of relative earnings. [PDF]
Dunatchik A, Dunatchik A.
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy
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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Policy Reform and Income Distribution [PDF]
The paper analyses the relationship between within-country income inequality and policies of domestic liberalization and external globalization. The models used to provide the rationale for such reforms—such as the Hecksher-Ohlin model—usually predict a ...
Giovanni Andrea Cornia
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A simulation of increasing rice price toward the disparity of income distribution: An evidence from Indonesia. [PDF]
Fitrawaty +3 more
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Drivers of Precision Agriculture Adoption in Italian Viticulture
ABSTRACT This study examines the main drivers influencing the adoption of two types of precision farming technologies in the viticultural sector: Decision Support Systems (DSSs) and Variable Rate Technologies (VRTs). We apply a partial proportional odds model and find that socio‐demographic characteristics are not significant determinants of adoption ...
Olimpia Fontana +3 more
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Accounting for income distribution trends: A density function decomposition approach [PDF]
This paper develops methods for decomposing changes in the income distribution using subgroup decompositions of the income density function. Overall changes are related to changes in subgroup shares and changes in subgroup densities, where the latter are
Jenkins, Stephen P., Van Kerm, Philippe
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