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Agricultural Policy Reform and Its Impact on Farm Households Income Inequality

, 2009
In the United States the 1996 agricultural policy reform ushered in market-oriented farm policies and also gave farmers a seven-year lump-sum payment that was not tied to production.
Mishra, Ashok K, El-Osta, Hisham, Shaik, Saleem   +2 more
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Behavioral Coping With Food Price Inflation: Patterns Among U.S. Households

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent food price inflation has placed substantial pressure on household budgets, food security, and mental well‐being. Using Household Pulse Survey data, we combine k‐modes clustering and Double Machine Learning to identify distinct household coping groups and examine differences in how households respond to rising food prices across groups ...
Yuxiang Zhang, Yizao Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Measures of Income Distribution and Economic Growth

, 2012
In this study, the empirical contents of various income inequality measures are compared under an identical framework with a well-tested data set. Our study suggests that long-term income inequality has a strong negative effect on Gross Domestic Product (
Hung, Mo Pak
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The Effect of SNAP Purchasing Power on Diet Quality

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits millions of eligible low‐income Americans by increasing access to food, helping to reduce food insecurity. Previous studies have documented that the geographical variation in local food prices leads to significant differences in SNAP's purchasing power.
Farah Khan, Augustine Denteh
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental risk factors for allergic rhinitis differ by income level: A Global Asthma Network survey. [PDF]

Pediatr Allergy Immunol
Masekela R, Rutter CE, Mortimer K, Chiang CY, García-Marcos L, El Sony A, Bissell K, Ellwood E, Pearce N, Asher I, Ellwood P, Singh N, Khumalo A, Morales E, Global Asthma Network Phase I Study Group.   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Investment and Prices in Kaldor’s Model of Income Distribution

, 1993
In the first part of this paper are restated the main differences separating the Keynesian from the neoclassical theory with respect to aggregate demand and national income.
Walsteijn, R. Ph.G.
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Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone, Craig W. Carpenter, Courtney Bir, Andrew J. Van Leuven, Rebecca Wasserman‐Olin, Wendong Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Docosahexaenoic acid intake and health in adults and older adults: a narrative review of disparities by country income level. [PDF]

Front Nutr
Valle-Valdez B, Terrazas-Lopez X, Gonzalez-Rocha A, Astiazaran-Garcia H, Armenta-Guirado B.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Income Distribution of People of Retirement Age in Japan

, 2007
This article examines inequality and poverty among older people in Japan. It compares Japan with that of a sample of other OECD countries. Provisions within the social insurance system that enable old-age pensioners to work and draw incomes from labor ...
Yamada, Atsuhiro
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Constructing and Validating New County‐Level Cultural Capital Indices for Applied Policy Analysis: Evidence From SNAP Take‐Up

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cultural capital influences a wide range of social and economic outcomes, yet quantitative measures suitable for policy analysis remain limited. We develop county‐level cultural capital indices for the US based on Bourdieu's framework of objectified, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital.
Pratyoosh Kashyap, Becca B. R. Jablonski, John Bovay   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source