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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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Employee Costs and the Decline in Health Insurance Coverage [PDF]
This paper examines why health insurance coverage fell despite the lengthy economic boom of the 1990s. I show that insurance coverage declined primarily because fewer workers took up coverage when offered it, not because fewer workers were offered ...
David M. Cutler
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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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Union Effects on Health Insurance Provision and Coverage in the United States [PDF]
During the past two decades, union density has declined in the United States and employer provision of health benefits has undergone substantial changes in extent and form.
John DiNardo, Thomas C. Buchmueller
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Health-insurance Coverage for Low-wage Workers, 1979-2010 and Beyond [PDF]
This paper uses data from the Current Population Surveys for 1980 through 2011 to review trends in health-insurance coverage rates for low-wage workers (defined as workers in the bottom fifth of the wage distribution in each survey year).
John Schmitt
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Other title: Access to coverage for Ohioans impacted by the COVID-19 virus
, 2020 "Effective March 11, 2020.""The purpose of this Bulletin is to notify companies of the request of the Superintendent of Insurance ('Superintendent') that companies ensure members have access to needed health care services to test for and treat COVID-19 ...
Ohio. Department of Insurance.
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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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Journal of Migration and HealthBackground: Sex workers face substantial health inequities related to sexual health and gender-based violence, many of which are amplified for the large proportion of workers who are racialized im/migrants.
Shira M. Goldenberg +5 more
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Employer-Sponsored Disability Insurance: Where are the Gaps in Coverage? [PDF]
I use data from the Current Population Surveys and Employee Benefits Surveys to analyze employer-sponsored disability insurance coverage. There does not appear to be a systematic trend from 1980 to 2000 in the fraction of workers with coverage ...
Helen Levy
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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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